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Daniel HindmanFeaturedCurrent Politics

Health and the Power of the State | Mere Orthodoxy

If the police power gives the state right to act in matters of health, what happens when all of life is assumed under "health and wellness"?

Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEconomics

the history of capitalism and the glory of man - Doctors Without Boredom

Note: I am sorry for the inconsistent posting schedule. Our family moved two weeks ago to our new field of service and the internet here is so inconsistent that I have been unable to connect every time that I sat […]

Matthew EmersonFeatured

Sola Scriptura and Tradition: Friends or foes? | Mere Orthodoxy

There is a way to say more than the Bible says by insisting that theology consists of only repeating phrases from the Bible.

Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

Mere Fidelity: Confessions, Book 9

Mere Fidelity: Confessions, Book 9

Brian MesimerEvangelicalism

Paige Patterson's Missing Link | Mere Orthodoxy

Patterson's counsel to abused women betrays an alarming lack of concern for the victims as well as an incorrect understanding of church discipline.

Jake MeadorChurch

Evangelicals and Catholics Together in 2018 - Commonplaces

Brief notes on this question: First, Rod is correct in his response to Walther in which he notes the extremely American characteristics of American Catholicism. Moreover, this is a trend that goes back some time—at least to JFK’s awful speech […]

John SheltonFeaturedEvangelicalism

Stanley Hauerwas: Modern American Puddleglum | Mere Orthodoxy

Hauerwas's gift is the ability to punch through comforting myths that American Christians tell themselves in order to draw their attention to higher things.

E. J. HutchinsonFeaturedEvangelicalism

Avoidance is not Purity: An Ode on the Pence Rule | Mere Orthodoxy

We should be friends, quoth Potiphar's wife.

Jake MeadorEvangelicalism

On the Pence Rule - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In a world and economy as hostile to marriage as ours, things like the Pence Rule are understandable attempts to protect marriage.

Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

Mere Fidelity: Matt Chandler, on Christian Courage

Mere Fidelity: Matt Chandler, on Christian Courage

Matthew Loftus

when churches commodify diversity - Doctors Without Boredom

What happens when urban churches try to commodify diversity? It gets ugly.

Matthew Loftus

more questions than answers in the death of a journalist in South Sudan - Doctors Without Boredom

A journalist embedded with rebel soldiers was shot and killed in South Sudan. Simona Foltyn unravels the story of his last hours and the questions raised by his death.