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Kevin WhiteUncategorized

Understand Your Neighbor

Today Kevin DeYoung shares some key points from Gary Dorrien's The Making of American Liberal Theology. DeYoung offers not a critique but a description, reminding us that theological

Andrew Walker

Roger Scruton on Discrimination

Like I said in this week’s post, talk of “rights” is an equivocation and wholly unconvincing when the “right” in question curries moral disapproval by large swaths of the population. In the case below, one man’s rights can often trample the […]

Kevin WhiteHistory/Church History

The "Great Apostasy" and Personalities (and Rob Bell)

The Great Apostasy is a common concept among Protestants. It comes in part from a true observation. If the old Catholics were not wrong, then we were wrong to break

Andrew WalkerPolitics

Why I'm Optimistic about Natural Marriage

Building off of Trevin Wax’s excellent post stating the reasons he’s optimistic about being pro-life, I want to follow in like manner and offer the top ten

Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsPolitical Theology

"Civil Societarianism" and the Place of the Church

Erik Kain: I view civil society as inherently cooperative rather than competitive. Whether you view government as a weed or not, privatizing traditionally public services by handing them over or

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Homosexuality and the Coming Religious Conflict?

The news out of Britian: There is no place in British law for Christian beliefs, despite this country’s long history of religious observance and the traditions of the established

Cate MacDonald

Proving Ourselves to be Neighbors: A Meditation for Blessed Sacrament Church

The church board of The Episcopal Church of the Blessed Sacrament and the Anglican Church of the Resurrection (two parishes who worship and fellowship as one) very kindly asked me to facilitate a discussion on stewardship during their board retreat. […]

Matthew Lee AndersonFilm Reviews/Hollywood

The Polarization of Hollywood

Movies are getting worse, Moki tells us.  And the way they know that is that successful movies are increasingly more polarizing.  The chart is of the top 20 movies from

Matthew Lee Anderson

(When) Is Lying Wrong?

Lila Rose’s explosive undercover video exposing a  Planned Parenthood worker who gave professional advice to someone masquerading as a pimp with an under-age sex ring has generated a national debate over the organization and its role. But it has also […]

Andrew Walker

Benson on Scriptural Confidence

Christopher Benson—a Mere-O reader and verbal ombudsman—has an excellent post up at his blog where he replies to Jonathan Fitzgerald’s insistence that ambiguity ought to be our reply when asked about making a moral pronouncement about homosexuality. Benson states, Where the […]

Kevin WhiteBibleHermeneuticsHistory/Church History

Literally?

Last week, Justin Taylor highlighted an article on the history of the interpretation of Genesis 1. I almost posted a rapid response, as the history of biblical interpretation is my

Matthew Lee AndersonembodimentAnthropology

Earthen Vessels: The First Interview

I was honored to be interviewed by James Poulos, one of my favorite young conservative writers on his worthy show The Bottom Line for PJTV. I struggle to understand 3/4 of what James says, but I struggle because I know […]