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Jake MeadorChurchEconomics

The Puritan Society

Early American history scholar Francis Bremer describes the Puritan doctrine of the commonwealth.

Matthew Lee Anderson

Mere Fidelity: The Incarnation

In the final show of 2016, Matt, Alastair, and Derek consider whether God would have become incarnate had Adam not sinned, and the value of thinking about such hypotheticals. Thanks to all of our listeners for your support this year. This […]

Jake MeadorEconomics

Demonic Rapaciousness

Russell Moore on the role that money and business play in the decadence of American life.

Jake MeadorChurch

Losing a Majority Mindset

Russell Moore on the consequences that seeing ourselves as a majority has had on American Christians.

Matthew LoftusCulture

If our enemy is modernity, aren't immigrants and Muslims on our side?

Individualistic atomism is a juggernaut that an authoritarian nationalism won't hold back.

Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

Mere Fidelity: The Four Loves, on Charity

We conclude the discussion on Lewis's  Four Loves by considering the nature of 'charity.'If you enjoyed the show, leave us a review at iTunes. If

Jake MeadorChurch

Tradition Doesn't Solve the Problem of Christian Unity

Philip Schaff explains why appeals to church tradition do not actually provide a sound basis for Christian unity or buffer against divisiveness.

Jake MeadorFamily

Hauerwas on the Politics of Sex

An excerpt from Hauerwas's "Sex in Public" in which he takes on the trend of "open marriages"

Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

Make the healthcare system better with this one weird trick!

There are a lot of things that are broken about the American healthcare system. I think one the main problems can be summed up by observing that most parts of the system are not really designed to make people healthy, take […]

Matthew Loftus

In lieu of tweet threads

Blogging is dead, they said. Until tweet-threads started taking over Twitter. In lieu of clogging up your timeline with thoughts that I had to cut precious words and meaning from anyway, I’ll be sharing too-long-for-a-tweet yet too-short-for-a-real-essay thoughts here. Probably […]

Jake Meador

Never Knowing Where You Come From

Berry at his absolute best:

Jake Meador

Religion Makes the Music Sweeter

Thomas Watson explains why Christians ought to be the most cheerful people.