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Sharon Hodde MillerFeaturedEvangelicalismFormation

Evangelicals and the Loss of Prophetic Imagination - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

This year has changed me. I say this in all earnestness and with no dramatic intent, but this year really has changed me. I am not the same person I was, and my calling has shifted too. It’s difficult to […]

Brad LittlejohnFeaturedCurrent Politics

Climate Change Is Political and There's Nothing Wrong With That

Donald Trump was sworn in as President at noon on Friday, January 20th. Within an hour, all references to climate change had been removed from the White House website. He has stacked key positions with outspoken climate change deniers, and […]

E. J. HutchinsonEthics

The 10 Commandments are the Foundation for Protestant Ethics

The 10 Commandments are a summary of the divine and moral laws, and its principles are identical in substance with the natural law.

Matthew Lee Anderson

Mere Fidelity: Silence, with Brett McCracken - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In this episode, we discuss Martin Scorsese’s new film Silence, which is an adaptation of Shūsaku Endo’s book of the same name. Film critic Brett McCracken makes his Mere Fidelity debut; he reviewed the film here, and can be followed on Twitter here. […]

Samuel JamesFeaturedEvangelicalismAnthropology

The Sexual Revolution Is Abortion

The sexual revolution depends upon a literally violent division of individual identity and individual bodies. The most brutal proof of this is abortion.

Matthew Lee AndersonFeaturedCurrent Politics

On the Executive Order Regarding Refugees | Mere Orthodoxy

The greatest challenge Trump's executive order poses to most Americans is simple: Can we keep our heads enough to make sound judgments as a country?

Matthew LoftusPolitics

Civics is not LARPing - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We should oppose Trump's presidency, not resist it. More importantly, we should cultivate civic character.

Jake Meador

The Need to be Outside Christianity - Commonplaces

Vanauken: Davy and I, we later decided, were immeasurably helped in our serious look at Christianity by where we considered ourselves to be: we did not at all suppose that we were Christians, just because we were more or less […]

Jake Meador

The Need to be Outside Christianity - Commonplaces

Vanauken: Davy and I, we later decided, were immeasurably helped in our serious look at Christianity by where we considered ourselves to be: we did not at all suppose that we were Christians, just because we were more or less […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Mere Fidelity: Episode #100 - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

When we started this here show, we weren’t sure that we would make it to episode 2–much less 100.  We’re very grateful for your kind support and patronage the past few years. In this 100th episode, we answer a smattering […]

Jake Meadorc.s. lewisdorothy sayersG. K. Chesterton

Christianity Will Cost You Everything - Commonplaces

Sheldon and Davy Vanauken were able to come to Christianity precisely because they knew what it would cost them.

Jake Meadorc.s. lewisdorothy sayersG. K. Chesterton

Christianity Will Cost You Everything - Commonplaces

Sheldon and Davy Vanauken were able to come to Christianity precisely because they knew what it would cost them.