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Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

There is No Wealth but Life: Rootedness in an Orphaned World

Any social program that attempts to chart the way through late liberalism that doesn't foreground the goodness of life will fail in its aims.

Guest WriterBibleFeaturedEvangelicalism

Does the Baptist Faith and Message Exclude Theistic Evolution?

Can one affirm a type of theistic evolution and serve in the SBC? The Baptist Faith and Message doesn't give a clear answer.

Jake MeadorFeatured

The Necessity of Nations | Mere Orthodoxy

Families, churches, and governments are not complete societies in themselves. Nations are. And we ought to belong to those nations as Christian citizens.

Michael McKoyFeatured

Nationalism for a Multi-Tribal People | Mere Orthodoxy

An American nationalism that lacks an understanding of America's injustice to minorities will be unable to overcome the charge of racism appended to it.

Caleb Wait

"Who Is an Evangelical?" with Dr. Thomas Kidd - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Who is an evangelical? Dr. Thomas Kidd joins Matt and Derek to discuss this pertinent question which is also the title to his recent book, Who Is an Evangelical?: The History of a Movement in Crisis. Listen in on why […]

Matthew Lee AndersonFeaturedCurrent Politics

A Failed Attempt to Reset the Nationalism Debate | Mere Orthodoxy

Werntz's essay rightly foregrounds the centrality of economics in understanding nations, but its treatment of economic injustice is reductionistic.

Matthew LoftusPoliticsFeatured

Pro-Blood, Pro-Soil, Pro-Nation, Pro-Christianity | Mere Orthodoxy

People ought to live in close relationship to their family and place of birth. But western nations have made that very difficult for the majority world.

John ThomasEconomics and Business

Book Review: The Economist's Hour by Binyamin Applebaum

Applebaum’s book traces the rise of free market economic policies in the U.S. and how those policies have increased inequality and harmed liberal democracy.

Myles WerntzPoliticsFeatured

What is a Nation? | Mere Orthodoxy

The debates about Christianity and nationalism have missed the central problem because they have not sufficiently reckoned with neo-liberal globalization.

Mark JonesBook Reviews

Book Review: Beyond Authority and Submission by Rachel Green Miller

Miller's book struggles to land many of its arguments because it doesn't engage sufficiently with key biblical texts or historic Christian views of gender.

Harold RaleyFeatured

Julián Marías: Philosophy and the Centrality of the Person

The Spanish philosopher Julián Marías, a disciple of José Ortega y Gasset, developed the latter's philosophy of the person in groundbreaking ways.

Susannah Black RobertsFeaturedCurrent Politics

Moldbug through the Looking Glass | Mere Orthodoxy

Far from being an anti-liberal of any sort, Mencius Moldbug is actually a more perfect liberal because he has actually and completely denatured politics.