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What Proximity is Worth

Reflections on Q Boston, healthy disagreement and the importance of relational proximity in a world of disembodied discourse and principles over people.

Jake MeadorCulture War

A Brief Thought on the Benedict Option | Mere Orthodoxy

The Benedict Option may be less about articulating a new response to new challenges and more about returning to classic Christian orthodoxy.

JF Arnold

You can watch 'The Cost of Freedom' right now - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Now you can watch The Cost of Freedom, with Cornel West, Robert George, and Rick Warren.

Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

Mere Fidelity: Free Range Parenting

Mere Fidelity: Free Range Parenting

Jake MeadorCulture

What Zlatan Ibrahimovic Taught Me About Enchantment

Conversations about "reenchantment" can quickly become lifeless and arid--which is why we should all watch this classic goal from Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Matthew Lee Anderson

Oliver O'Donovan against Decline Narratives - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I’ve finished Oliver O’Donovan’s latest book, which I have mixed feelings about. However, in light of my recent musings on the rhetoric of ‘decline’ within the evangelical world, I was intrigued to see O’Donovan offer his own critique of those […]

Jake MeadorChurch

Reviewing The New Parish and New Evangelical Language

The New Parish is a book with a great idea executed only half as well as it might have been, due in no small part to the dreadful language the writers use.

Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

Mere Fidelity: Beyond the Abortion Wars

Charles Camosy joins Mere Fidelity to discuss his new book Beyond the Abortion Wars: A Way Forward for a New Generation.

Matthew Lee AndersonCulture War

The Limits of Dialogue: Q Ideas, Gay Marriage, and Chuck Colson

Q Ideas is inviting proponents of gay marriage to their conference. Should they? And would Chuck Colson approve?

Matthew Lee Anderson

The Cost of Freedom - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Let’s start with where we all, I think, can agree:  right now, there is a great deal of conflict and disagreement over what justice requires and what freedom should look like. The religious liberty throw-down that we’ve recently experienced is […]

Matthew LoftusWesley HillBook ReviewsSpiritual Friendship

Material Dimensions of Spiritual Friendship

Spiritual Friendship manages to be informative and insightful but also unnerving and challenging.

Matthew Lee AndersonCulture War

Hope, Failures, and Young Evangelicals: On What I Said and Didn't

What does hope have to do with progressive Christianity and the religious liberty challenges that are currently upon us?