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Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

A Survival Guide for the Upcoming Political Onslaught - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We are faced by a political onslaught. This is a survival guide for you to get through it without losing your soul.

Matthew Lee AndersonSocial Trends

The New Puritanism: Chick-fil-A and Boycotts

People want to boycott Chick-fil-A because on behalf of gay rights and against traditional marriage. But this is a form of a new Puritanism.

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitical Theologypeter leithartStanley Hauerwas

Between Babel and Beast: Reviewing Peter Leithart's Political Theology (Pt. 2)

Peter Leithart's Between Babel and Beast is an impressive political theology that follows up Defending Constantine. This is our review.

Brett McCracken

When Your Social Media Feeds Get You Down

Social media can become negative and insular quickly. But Christians should play differently online.

Cate MacDonaldFormation

On Leaving Home: Vocation, Eternity, and Texas - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

What prompts us to leave home? In light of eternity, only a sense of vocation and calling and work will prompt us to move.

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitical Theologypeter leithartrevelationdefending constantine

Between Babel and Beast: Reviewing Peter Leithart's Political Theology (Pt. 1)

Between Babel and Beast is Peter Leithart's political theology that develops his work in Defending Constantine. Part one of our review.

Matthew Lee Andersonc.s. lewisSexualitySemanticsJared Wilson

Sex, Submission, and Evangelicals: Doug Wilson's Controversial Words

What has sex to do with submission? Unpacking Doug Wilson's controversial remarks about sex and how evangelicals relate to it.

Chris KrychoArtMusicGüngörEvangelicalism

Evangelical Tracts and Real Art: Gungor and Creation's Goodness

Evanglicals struggle with art. But Gungor's Ghosts upon the Earth points toward creation's goodness and so shows a way forward.

L. M. SacasasTechnologyMarshall McLuhan

What makes the edifi "Christian?" On Media, Habits, and Christian Virtue

The edifi claims to be a "Christian tablet." But what makes a technology Christian? Marshall McLuhan and others step in to help.

Matthew Lee AndersonTheology and PracticeLiberal ChristianityRoss Douthatchristianity

The Dim Future for Liberal Protestantism: Douthat and O'Donovan Together

Ross Douthat questioned whether liberal Protestantism could survive. We bring in Oliver O'Donovan as a dialogue partner to the discussion.

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

The Trouble with Talking about our "Identity in Christ" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

When Christians talk about "identity in Christ," what do they mean? Is it a positive theological concept, or a negative one?

Ben Simpson

Every Foreign Land their Fatherland, Yet Every Fatherland a Foreign Land

Right and left meet at the cross: Love of nation is not necessarily a bad thing, so long as we maintain a unique identity under the cross