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Seth TrouttGender

The Masculinity Pyramid

A healthy account of masculinity has to emphasize humility, discipline, responsibility, and strength.

Joshua HeavinFeaturedChurchEvangelicalismFormation

The Church Will Not Be Consulted - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In recent years it has become increasingly popular for churches of differing sizes, locations, and denominational traditions to make use of consultant services to find new ministers and staff for Christian institutions. If you browse the denominational job boards of […]

Ana SiljakTechnology

The Golden Calf

Whatever we create will be subject to error and entropy. And deifying imperfection and impermanence simply, and inevitably, leads to disappointment.

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

Drunk Tears on a Barren Sea: Augustinian Reflections on Desire

Misshapen desires are self-defeating, and so will eventually bring us to tears.

Stiven PeterEvangelicalismCulture WarBook Reviews

Want people to go to Church? Invite them. Want them to stay? Invite them into your life.

The Great Dechurching isn't primarily driven by the culture war. It's driven by the radical absence of the church in the day to day lives of people.

John SheltonTheology

Theology is Dangerous

Gregory of Nazianzus warned us centuries ago that the study of theology is not for everyone. Recent trends in academic theology are proving him right.

Susannah Black RobertsHistoryLiterature

The Birth of Comedy

The world that vitalists nostalgic for the Bronze Age wish to recover was waiting for something: longing for something more than a brief, passing glory.

Jake MeadorHistoryChurch

The American Church in the Fourth Republic

The problems facing the church at the dawn of America's fourth republic are unlike those that have confronted her at earlier moments in American history.

William E. Boyce and K. J. DrakeBibleFeaturedChurch

The Case for Pew Bibles - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Do pew Bibles matter? Churches of all styles have had to ask this question in recent years. The increase of church plants using secular spaces for worship means that church planters must contemplate the extra weight, hassle, and expense of […]

John SheltonFeaturedCurrent Politics

Os Guinness: The Christian Public Intellectual After Jacques Maritain - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“Nothing is possible without men, But nothing lasts without institutions.” — Jean Monnet[1] Christians interested in public intellectual engagement often ask: “who is the next C.S. Lewis? Who is the next Reinhold Niebuhr?” While the words and ideas of both […]

Brad EastFeaturedEvangelicalismCurrent Politics

Once More, Church and Culture - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Christendom is the name we give to Christian civilization, when society, culture, law, art, family, politics, and worship are saturated by the church’s influence and informed by its authority. Christendom traces its beginnings to the fourth century after Christ; it […]

T. M. SuffieldFeatured

Why People Don't Leave Social Media - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Social media makes us unhappy. Or, more precisely, social media increases unhappiness for many of us. I spend a lot of time interacting with University students, many of whom are becoming aware that their use of social media is bad […]