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Jake Meador
A short update from Jake before he steps away for a two month break later this week
Guest WriterCurrent Politics
Today I am pleased to feature this essay from first-time Mere O contributor Josiah Peterson. The legal status of marriage was a hot button issue in the 2012 election cycle. Where has it gone in 2016?
Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity
Mere Fidelity: The Four Loves, on Friendship
Guest WriterEconomics and Business
As part of an ongoing series, Dylan Pahman presents a classical liberal perspective on the Christian statesman's responsibilities to the poor.
Jake MeadorFamilyEconomics and BusinessEvangelicalism
Jen Hatmaker's recently announced shift on the question of homosexuality is entirely predictable if you understand the principles that shape her work.
Jake MeadorChurchEvangelicalism
There are three groups within the existing Benedict Option discussions: the Augustinian radicals, magisterial Protestants, and illiberal Catholics.
Guest WriterEvangelicalismCurrent Politics
It turns out that if all evangelicals know how to do is not be Jerry Falwell, the vacuum is filled by Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Susannah Black RobertsCulture War
Responding to the deserved demise of the religious right, Russell Moore may have tacitly embraced a political quietism that eats away at public virtue.
Matthew Lee Anderson
In which we go there. John Stonestreet, President of the Colson Center and co-author of Restoring all Things, joins the crew to talk about how Christians should think about the upcoming election and whether and how we are all going to be able to […]
John SheltonCurrent Politics
The problem facing both major American parties is the same—the mystical vision that animates them has given way to the grind of day-to-day politicking.
Brian MesimerEvangelicalismCurrent Politics
The five stages of grief is a surprisingly useful model for understanding evangelical reactions to the 2016 presidential elections.
Jake MeadorEvangelicalismCurrent Politics
The ascent of Donald Trump has exposed a number of problems that have existed for some time in white evangelicalism but are only now being seen clearly.