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JF ArnoldMere FidelitySermon

Mere Fidelity: Sermon

Mere Fidelity: Sermon

Jake MeadorCulture WarCurrent PoliticsFormation

Protestantism and the Benedict Option - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The following is less a long-form essay and more a series of semi-connected thoughts concerning the Benedict Option and American Protestantism. I’ve broken them down with headers in hopes of making it easier for readers to pick out which parts […]

Jake Meador

A World Where Love Can Be At Home: Josh Ritter and Francis Schaeffer

You might summarize Josh Ritter's work as being a lament over a world in which love is not at home.

JF ArnoldMere Fidelity

Mere Fidelity: Intersex

Mere Fidelity: Intersex

Berny BelvedereTelevision

A Faithless House: Religion in Fox's House | Mere O

Religion in Fox's House, is, unfortunately, treated as fundamentally irrational, wholly incapable of withstanding the protagonist's skepticism.

Jake MeadorTechnologySexualityTinder

On Tinder and Why It's OK to Commodify Sex

The Vanity Fair piece on Tinder and the end of dating has rightly alarmed many readers, but not always for the right reasons.

Alastair RobertsSocial TrendsLiteratureTechnologyPresenceSocial MediaTwitterPride and Prejudice

Twitter Is Like Elizabeth Bennet's Meryton

Twitter Is Like Elizabeth Bennet's Meryton

Jake MeadorBlogging

On Long Posts | Mere Orthodoxy

Despite the ubiquity of the online slang "tl;dr" we at Mere O still want to run long posts that take the time necessary to speak truthfully about an issue.

Matthew LoftusEvangelicalismFormation

Fear the Lifestyle that will Kill Body and Soul - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Matthew Loftus on the virtues of risk, the dangers of comfort, and how it all relates to the ongoing Benedict Option conversation.

JF Arnold

Mere Fidelity: After Obergefell - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The usual crew discuss the Obergefell v. Hodges decision.

Jake MeadorPolitics

3 Points on #PPSellsBabyParts - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The third and fourth videos in the Center for Medical Progress’s series on Planned Parenthood dropped this week and the response, at least to the third, has been a bit different from that of the first two weeks. (As I […]

Jake MeadorBlogging

The Evolution of Blogs and the Future of Mere O - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The future of Mere O is bright as we attempt to pioneer a different approach to online publishing built on friendship & indifference toward the news cycle.