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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.

Chris KrychoFeaturedEpistemologyAnthropology

Faithful Extension and the Question of Human Origins - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The questions the church confronts most severely at present are questions of theological anthropology—so human origins and the doctrine of the Fall matter.

Guest WriterFeatured

Twenty-Five “Non-Christian” Books Published This Year That Christians Should Read - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

By Brad Vermurlen Around this time each year, many of the pastors and seminary professors I’m connected to on social media post their top ten books of the year. Inevitably, most of the books they select are religiously committed books […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism

Quiz: Are you an evangelical? | Mere Orthodoxy

One of the most frequent, annoying arguments in religious journalism concerns the definition of an "evangelical." To solve the problem, we created a quiz.

Guest WriterFeaturedCurrent Politics

A Consequentialist Theory of Voting - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

By Stephen Wolfe The Trump and Moore political campaigns raise an important question for Christians: does one endorse the moral life of the candidate he votes for? Surprisingly, there seems to be consensus on this, regardless of one’s willingness to […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

The Principled Pro-Life Vote | Mere Orthodoxy

22,000 Alabamians opted not to vote for either candidate last night. It's quite plausible that principled pro-life voters cost the GOP a senate seat.

Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

Mere Fidelity: Confessions, Book V

Mere Fidelity: Confessions, Book V