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Brad LittlejohnPoliticsintellectual empathypolemics

Speaking the Truth in Love: Rules of Engagement for the Polemically-Inclined

Intellectual emapthy is a virtue that we are short on these days. Brad Littlejohn explains what speaking the truth in love means.

Cate MacDonaldFormation

What Christmas Bells Might Mean

Christmas is meant as a remembrance of the most shockingly concrete experience the world ever had that God was not dead, and he had not forgotten us.

Cate MacDonald

Of Women and the Freedom to be Holy - Mere Orthodoxy

Christianity in the 18th and 19th century was good for women, or at least Mary Shelley thought so.

Guest WriterBook Reviews

Ryan McIlhenny’s Kingdoms Apart (Part 2): Redeemed Culture as Christian Witness

Ryan McIlhenny’s Kingdoms Apart (Part 2): Redeemed Culture as Christian Witness

Guest Writer

Ryan Mcllhenny's Kingdoms Apart (Part 1): Stirring the Waters - Mere Orthodoxy

Matthew Tuininga engages Ryan Mcllhenny's Kingdoms Apart.

Matthew Lee Andersonembodiment

When Your Publisher stops Publishing Your Book: Earthen Vessels *Really* Cheap

Earthen Vessels is going out of print. This is your last chance to get a paper copy.

Guest WriterChurch

Women Bishops, N.T. Wright, and Douglas Wilson

Anglicans turned down women bishops. N.T. Wright and Douglas Wilson both responded to the issue, but their response shows a lack of intellectual empathy.

Cate MacDonaldEducationHouston Baptist University

On Teaching Lambs

I love teaching, or so I thought. Turns out, what I have loved is watching people learn. Teaching is another thing altogether, a thing fraught with peril.

Jake MeadorGender

A Year of Biblical Womanhood: A(nother) Review

A year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans has stirred up controversy. This review explores the literary devices it uses.

Matthew Lee Anderson

Sex without Qualifications: Christianity and the Meaning of Sex - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Christianity offers us sex without qualifications, rather than "meaningful sex" that some people attempt to construct.

Matthew Lee AndersonSexuality

Altared: A Book on Marriage that Everyone Should Read

Altared: A Book on Marriage that Everyone Should Read

Matthew Lee AndersonBible

A Defense of "Biblical" Against Interpretative Nihilism.

Biblical nihilism is a genuine possibility. However, Christians interested in preserving the prophetic mode should also preserve "biblical."