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Charlie ClarkEconomics and Business

5 Theses on Christians and Political Economy

There are five basic principles that should shape and define our approach as Christians to the question of political economy.

Samuel JamesEvangelicalismCulture WarCurrent Politics

The Culture War Is Interested in You - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Last summer, David Brooks wrote that the social conflicts “oriented around the Sexual revolution” were over. Legal same-sex marriage and the declining influence of traditional Christianity had combined, he wrote, to put the goals of the culture wars of the last few decades out […]

Jake MeadorEvangelicalismCulture WarCurrent Politics

Evangelicalism After Trump: The religious left isn't coming.

Ruth Graham's latest in Slate is both useful and interesting, but misunderstands the current political mood amongst evangelicals.

Brad LittlejohnEconomics and BusinessEvangelicalismCurrent Politics

Evangelicalism After Trump: Revisiting Economics

The rise of Donald Trump provides an opportunity for evangelicals to return to more basic questions, such as the right ordering of political economies.

Guest WriterEvangelicalismCurrent Politics

Evangelicalism After Trump: The case for staying in the GOP

Stephen Wolfe explains why any attempted third party movement amongst evangelicals would be doomed to fail from the start.

JF ArnoldPentecostMere Fidelity

Mere Fidelity: Pentecost

Mere Fidelity: Pentecost

Jake MeadorDevotionalFormation

"Trials are Precious" | Mere Orthodoxy

Rob and Ruth Meador discuss how God has revealed himself to them and preserved them in the aftermath of Rob's traumatic brain injury.

Steven WedgeworthEvangelicalismCurrent Politics

Evangelicalism After Trump: Escaping the GOP

Steven Wedgeworth argues that the ascent of Trump offers a fantastic opportunity for evangelicals to develop a genuinely evangelical alternative to the GOP.

Matthew Lee AndersonEvangelicalismCurrent Politics

Evangelicalism After Trump: The Moral Bankruptcy of the GOP

The ascent of Donald Trump makes one thing clear: The GOP has lost all moral credibility with evangelical voters.

JF ArnoldMere Fidelity

Mere Fidelity: Ascension

Mere Fidelity: Ascension

Guest WriterEducationEvangelicalism

Reviewing "You Are What You Love" by James K.A. Smith - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

James Smith's new book "You Are What You Love" is an exploration of how people practices shape desires and desires shape people.

Jake Meador

Reviewing "Disrupted" by Dan Lyons - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

About two-thirds of the way through Dan Lyons’ new book Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble my mind went, as it often does, to an excerpt from a Wendell Berry essay. The essay is “Two Economies” and in it Berry […]