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Andrew Walker

Christian Encounters: William F. Buckley - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Count me disappointed. This was the bitter taste left in my mouth after reading what I had hoped would be an excellent book pertaining to an important subject on an unbelievably influential thinker. I am an enormous William F. Buckley […]

Matthew Lee AndersonEvangelicalism

Why Evangelical Christians Cannot Win: Beck, Patrol, and Civil Religion

Why Evangelical Christians Cannot Win: Beck, Patrol, and Civil Religion

Andrew WalkerPoliticsUncategorized

Dispatches from the Values Voter Summit: Needing a Nexus

Dispatches from the Values Voter Summit: Needing a Nexus

Jeremy MannBible

What are Theologians For? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

What are theologians for? What are they supposed to do? If the theologians of the world went on a retreat together and made a list of objectives for 2011, what would be on it? I’m not sure how to answer […]

Cate MacDonaldFormation

The Gospel According to Trees: An Intro - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In the next few weeks I’ll be writing variations on a theme here at Mere-O and I’m interested to know how you all feel about the theme itself. A few weeks ago we were contacted by an organization that plants […]

Andrew WalkerEvangelicalism

Matt Anderson on "Focusing on the Family"

Matt Anderson on "Focusing on the Family"

Andrew WalkerUncategorized

Doug Wilson on Glenn Beck

Doug Wilson on Glenn Beck

Andrew Walker

Mere-O @ Values Voter Summit 2010 - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

At this week’s upcoming Values Voter Summit 2010, I’ll be on assignment covering the events for MereOrthodoxy.com. Note: I will not be “live blogging” as much as I will be providing a daily summary of what’s occurring, whose shaking things […]

Andrew WalkerUncategorized

Why are Beck and Palin Popular?

Why are Beck and Palin Popular?

Matthew Lee Anderson

The Hipster Christian Controversy: An Interview with Brett McCracken - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

As evangelicalism has grown increasingly fragmented in recent years (or at least, as more articles get written saying it is), the labels to organize the different types of evangelicals have grown accordingly.   We have emerging evangelicals, social justice evangelicals, […]

Andrew Walker

Civil Religion: A Modest Apologia - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

There’s been a torrent of debate in the evangelical blogosphere regarding Glenn Beck’s 8/28 “Restoring Honor Rally.” Dividing lines, more or less, have been drawn; allegations of evangelical elitism by Beck’s defenders and accustations of naive, nationalism by his critics. […]

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Chesterton, Orthodoxy, and Aesthetic First Principles

Chesterton, Orthodoxy, and Aesthetic First Principles