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Zack HolbrookFeatured

Guide Us Home: A Review of "On the Road with Saint Augustine"

This is the lesson of Jamie Smith’s book: we are never not on the road. But it is not just any road we are called to; it is the Way.

Caleb Wait

From Jacob to Israel - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Break out your bibles and join Alastair, Derek, and Matt for an old fashion bible study of Genesis 32:22-32, the story of Jacob’s name change. Why does Jacob demand the name of the one he wrestles? Why do later scriptures […]

Susannah Black RobertsUncategorized

Welcome to the Hotel California: Bronze Age Pervert Amongst the Claremonsters - Radio Free Thulcandra

I’ll just say, I did call it. BAP has appeared— memeless, if not maskless — in the pages of The American Mind. His critiques of the left are fair. But his description of the range of choices in public philosophy […]

Susannah Black RobertsUncategorized

Welcome to the Hotel California: Bronze Age Pervert Amongst the Claremonsters - Radio Free Thulcandra

I’ll just say, I did call it. BAP has appeared— memeless, if not maskless — in the pages of The American Mind. His critiques of the left are fair. But his description of the range of choices in public philosophy […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism

Reformation Day and the Waning of the Western Church

The Reformation was not only concerned with theological reform, but also moral reform. It called a decadent church, choking on its own power, to repent.

Jake Meador

Eucharistic Presence and the Life of Faith - Commonplaces

I’m co-teaching a class at my church on the sacraments right now. One benefit is that I have a reason to go back over the old reformed confessions. Here is the Belgic Confession (1561) on the Eucharist:

Jake Meador

Eucharistic Presence and the Life of Faith - Commonplaces

I’m co-teaching a class at my church on the sacraments right now. One benefit is that I have a reason to go back over the old reformed confessions. Here is the Belgic Confession (1561) on the Eucharist:

Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

The Liberty of a Christian in a Democratic Age | Mere Orthodoxy

Schmitz argues that democracies force their members to choose between liberty and Christianity. Historic Protestantism says this is a false dichotomy.

Caleb Wait

For and Against: Multi-site Churches - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Andrew, Matt, and Derek sit down to discuss the phenomenon of multi-site churches. Andrew argues for the soundness of such an ecclesiastical practice and Matt and Derek aren’t so sure.     If you’re interested in supporting the show financially, […]

Jake Meador

Liberty doesn't mean what they think it means. | Commonplaces

Conservative neo-liberal defenses of 'liberty' fail because ultimately their definition of liberty is horrifying.

Jake Meador

Liberty doesn't mean what they think it means. | Commonplaces

Conservative neo-liberal defenses of 'liberty' fail because ultimately their definition of liberty is horrifying.

Michael ShindlerFeatured

The Joke's on You: Why Leviathan Needs Joker - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

As men require a heaping dose of dreams to reconcile themselves to waking life, so too does the hulking Leviathan of society require its dreams—which are films. This fantastical notion—that films function as society’s dreams—was first heralded by a smattering […]