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Jason Hood

Imitating God in Christ: Recapturing A Biblical Pattern

Imitating God in Christ: Recapturing a Biblical Pattern by Jason B. Hood is available now!

Jake MeadorEvangelicalism

Speaking Prophetically to the Church or Publicly Criticizing the Church?

There's a sharp difference between speaking prophetically to the church and standing outside the church and making public criticisms.

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

Readers Write about the Book: On Understanding and Apologetics

The End of our Exploring is a book that highlights the primacy of understanding, rather than apologetics, within the Christian life.

Jake MeadorEvangelicalism

The Rise of the Chicken Little Evangelical Blogger | Mere Orthodoxy

The "Christianity Must Change or Die" meme is back. And with it come a group of Chicken Little evangelical bloggers convinced that evangelicalism is dying.

Matthew Lee AndersonEvangelicalismchristianity

Five Fundamental Questions Conservative Evangelicals Must Address

Conservative evangelicals face a crisis of confidence. Here are five fundamental questions that they must answer to improve their witness.

Cate MacDonaldEducation

The Quick and the Dead

Questioning is a form of desire. Jonathan Mueller of The Academy at Houston Baptist University explains.

Jake MeadorEducationCulture

Short-term Missions Trips and Cultural Institutions

What would happen if money from short-term missions trips were diverted toward under-funded local Christian institutions?

Cate MacDonaldEducation

The Surprising Similarities Between First Dates and Bad Textbooks - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Bad dates and textbooks have a lot in common, namely, bad questions. David Gilbert of The Academy at Houston Baptist University explains.

Matthew Lee Andersonchristianity todayradical chrisitanityrichard stearnesFormation

The Ordinary is not Comfortable: Richard Stearns' "Radical" Misreading

The ordinary and comfortable are not equivalent. Radical Christianity thrives by conflating them in unhelpful ways.

Cate MacDonaldFormation

On Kids and Questions - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Kids and questions go together. Cate MacDonald reflects on the questioning life in light of her work with high schoolers.

Guest WriterTelevisionlgbtqmtv's the real worldmtvpedro

Pedro at 40: How a Television Show Changed the Way a Generation Viewed LGBTQ Persons

MTV's 'The Real World' shaped our views of LGBTQ persons more than most care to admit. Pedro made homosexuality real for many people who had abstracted it.

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A Reading Guide for 2013

If you want to figure out what is worth reading this year--and what isn't--be sure to see our list. This reading guide for 2013 has only the best.