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Guest WriterFeaturedEvangelicalismFormation

Pastoral Care and the Trauma of Life: A Reformed Evangelical Approach

Reformed theology provides pastors with the resources to help address trauma, which is what makes those churches struggles to address it well so sad.

Jake MeadorFeatured

Reviewing Rod Dreher's "The Benedict Option | Mere Orthodoxy

Before it is anything else, Rod Dreher's "The Benedict Option" is a handbook for Christians attempting to live out their faith in a post-Christian world.

Matthew LoftusCultureandycrouch

Andy Crouch on race, power, and culture making - Doctors Without Boredom

Andy Crouch is on a podcast spree hitting on important topics like race, power, and culture making.

Brad EastFeaturedHistoryEvangelicalism

Theologians Were Arguing About the Benedict Option 35 Years Ago

The current Benedict Option debate has its roots in academic debates of the early 1980s and, as such, vindicates Hunter's argument in "To Change the World."

Jake MeadorFeaturedHistoryCulture War

The New Alarmism Is Not New and Is Not Alarmism | Mere Orthodoxy

The problems that Rod Dreher, Archbishop Chaput, Drs. R. R. Reno and Anthony Esolen raise in their books aren't new and their concerns are quite reasonable.

Jake MeadorBook Reviews

Reviewing Anthony Esolen's "Out of the Ashes"

Anthony Esolen's punchy book is valuable because the imaginative Esolen does a marvelous job of depicting the good and helping his readers to desire it.

Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

addiction: the devil you can measure and the devil you can't - Doctors Without Boredom

What if addiction is a spiritual power, a hole between our brains and a demonic nether world?

E. J. HutchinsonFamilyFeatured

On Gratitude and the Fifth Commandment | Mere Orthodoxy

Ultimately the fifth commandment is concerned with teaching us to be grateful for the order into which we are born and to submit to that order happily.

Samuel JamesFeaturedCollege and University

Our Middlebury Moment | Mere Orthodoxy

The violent student protests at Middlebury College are a powerful reminder of one of our moment's pressing need: an active theology of human dignity.

Jake MeadorPoliticsHistoryEvangelicalism

On Presidential Politics and Evangelical Cultural Clout

The electoral success of the Republican party has convinced some that evangelicalism is still culturally ascendant. That idea is almost entirely mistaken.

Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalismFormation

Lent, Individualism, and Christian Piety | Mere Orthodoxy

Alastair Roberts and Jake Meador discuss how modern individualism shapes and distorts our experience of Lent.

Jake MeadorCommunities

Machen on the Decline of Christian Humanism - Commonplaces

Machen: