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Guest WriterFeaturedCurrent Politics

On the City and the Gods: A Lost Chapter of Aristotle | Mere Orthodoxy

Greg Forster argues that a truly liberal city can only exist when people have partial, though not complete, agreement on the will of the gods for the city.

Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

Mere Fidelity: Confessions, Book IV

Mere Fidelity: Confessions, Book IV

Matthew Lee AndersonFeaturedEthicsCurrent Politics

The Adoption Tax Credit Is Not (Necessarily) Pro-Life | Mere Orthodoxy

The uncritical assumption that one must support the adoption tax credit in order to claim the label "pro-life" is overly simple and unhelpful.

Guest WriterFeatured

Find Your Cultured Christian Article Title With This Quiz | Mere Orthodoxy

Need a title for your next earnest Christian thinkpiece? This quiz has you covered.

Matthew Lee Anderson

Mere Fidelity: The Reformation, with Carl Trueman - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We’re delighted to have Carl Trueman on the show to talk with us about the sources and effects of the Reformation. Trueman holds the Paul Woolley Chair of Church History and is professor of church history at Westminster Theological Seminary. If […]

Paul D. MillerFeatured

The City and the Gods: The Case for the Liberal Order | Mere Orthodoxy

Paul D. Miller uses a Socratic dialogue to make the case for why we should still stand by the liberal social order.

Jake Meador

Sex in Movies: Was John Piper Right All Along? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

So Kevin Spacey is in the news this week for what increasingly appears to be a Weinstein- or Cosby-level history of sexual abuse. In Spacey’s case, however, his typical target was allegedly young boys he met through his work as […]

Brian MesimerEvangelicalism

Bucer, Freud, and the Evangelical Counseling Wars - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I’m pleased to publish this guest essay from Brian Mesimer. The door closes as your next appointment walks in and sits in the chair across from you. Putting his head in his hands, Rick lets out a mournful sigh. After […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedChurchEvangelicalism

How to Celebrate the Reformation - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Today marks the 500th anniversary of the day that Martin Luther (might have) nailed his famous 95 Theses to the church door in Wittenberg. While the historicity of that famous event is in dispute, what is not in question is […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Mere Fidelity: Confessions, Book 3 - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

This week Alastair, Derek, and Matt take up and read Book 3 of Augustine’s Confessions. If you’d like to read along–which we encourage you to do–Henry Chadwick’s translation is available widely at a reasonable price. If you like the show, please do leave […]

Brad LittlejohnFeaturedEvangelicalism

The Real Presence and the Presence of Reality | Mere Orthodoxy

As we celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Dr. Brad Littlejohn argues that it is not the Protestants who desacralized the cosmos.

Guest Writer

Book Review: Mariner: A Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Mischa Willett reviews Malcolm Guite's new book, Mariner: A Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.