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Caleb WaitMere Fidelity

Finding Holy In The Suburbs, with Dr. Ashley Hales

Finding Holy In The Suburbs, with Dr. Ashley Hales

Guest WriterFeaturedCurrent Politics

In Defense of Localism | Mere Orthodoxy

Contrary to the claims of its critics, the American localist tradition cannot be reasonably reduced down to a vehicle of white identity politics.

Ruben AlvaradoFeaturedChurch

What Kuyper Gets Wrong: On the Problem with Denominationalism - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Once upon a time, the state shared the public square with the church. The central location of the church building in every European town is mute testimony to this state of affairs. But those days are long gone. Nowadays there […]

E. J. HutchinsonFeatured

To Read Without Pleasure is Stupid: On the Novels of John Williams - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

John Williams is a moral novelist without being a moralist. His three great novels are sparse, beautiful reflections on human choice and responsibility.

Caleb WaitMere Fidelity

Mere Fidelity: The Invisibility of the Church

Mere Fidelity: The Invisibility of the Church

Jake Meador

Book Review: The Dignity Revolution by Daniel Darling - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

It is inherent to sin’s nature to rationalize itself. This is hardly a new insight. After all, the almost immediate response of Adam and Eve in the aftermath of the world’s first sin was to justify themselves by shifting the […]

Guest WriterFeaturedBloggingEvangelicalism

The Real Place for Conflict: On Keeping Controversy Close to Home

Social media creates a context in which everyone can voice their opinion on controversies, even when they have nothing to do with them or their home place.

Caleb WaitMere Fidelity

Spirit and Sacrament: An Invitation to Eucharismatic Worship

Spirit and Sacrament: An Invitation to Eucharismatic Worship

Guest WriterFeatured

Book Review: The Classical Revolution by John Borstlap | Mere Orthodoxy

Borstlap's book fails to deliver on its lofty promises because it doesn't take the time to sufficiently understand the targets of its criticisms.

Joshua HeavinFeatured

A Christian Ethic of Sex in a Pornographic Age | Mere Orthodoxy

Nadia Bolz-Weber's "Shamless" doesn't give readers a Christian understanding of sexual health. Rather, it makes them prisoners to the spirit of the age.

Guest WriterFeatured

Book Review: Music as an Art by Roger Scruton - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Is Scruton's book about a thousand years of western music or just a few centuries?

Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

Economics, Class and the Family, with Dr. Diane Schanzenbach

Economics, Class and the Family, with Dr. Diane Schanzenbach