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Andrew Osenga, "The Painted Desert" - Doctors Without Boredom

This year, I’m hoping to keep this blog more active with short posts about stories and essays I’ve been reading, but I also want to share more music. I love writing and listening to music and there’s a lot of […]

Jake Meador

Book Review: Confident Pluralism by John Inazu | Mere Orthodoxy

Inazu's book offers a compelling case for the legal norms needed in a pluralistic society, but it isn't, as some have said, a hopeful alternative to Dreher.

Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism

Three Notes on Women Professors and Seminary | Mere Orthodoxy

Debates like the one prompted by Piper's comments are inevitable and irresolvable until we get better at institution building and dogmatic theology.

Jake MeadorFeaturedCulture War

Liberalism and Personal Formation | Mere Orthodoxy

So far the conservative response to the radtrads has ignored the most important point of the debate: Liberalism is very bad at producing liberals.

Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

Mere Fidelity: Equality

Mere Fidelity: Equality

Jake MeadorHistory

Notes on Edgardo Montara from a Protestant Onlooker | Mere Orthodoxy

The outrage that followed First Things's publication of an essay on the Mortara affair has, sadly and predictably, focused on the wrong questions.

Joseph MinichFeaturedBlogging

Prophetic Performers, Authenticity Acts, and the Need for Wisdom

The internet gives us many examples of folly. Two in particular are especially dangerous: the prophetic performer and the authenticity act.

Matthew LoftusFamilyFeaturedCurrent Politics

If Anything Is Pro-Life, Nothing Is - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“This is a pro-life issue.” By now you have probably heard this sentiment expressed about any number of issues that are not immediately related to abortion. Food stamps, taxes, healthcare—even immigration!—are designated as “pro-life” causes because they may in some […]

Guest WriterPolitical Theology

The Problems Two Kingdoms Don't Solve

Simon Kennedy and Ben Saunders argue that two kingdom theology deals with reality too neatly and is an inadequate answer to problems of political theology.

Jake Meador

The Politics of the Last Jedi | Mere Orthodoxy

If "The Last Jedi" has a weakness it's that too eagerly embraces a politics obsessed with power. But if that's a weakness it is hardly unique to this film.

Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

Mere Fidelity: The Virgin Birth

Mere Fidelity: The Virgin Birth

Jake MeadorFeatured

The 2017 Eliot Awards - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

For the longest time one of my favorite year-end rituals has been combing through David Brooks’s Sydney Award winners for the year to find which ones I’d missed and to re-read favorites from earlier in the year.