The Archive
Tex
This summer seems to be the summer of guest voices at MereO. Either we are going through a major identity crisis and are desperately reaching for others to bring us a voice and thesis that we can’t find ourselves…or, we’ve […]
Jake Meador
Matt got us started on the TV/Pop Culture kick, so I figured it’d be OK if I made my own TV recommendation for Mere O readers. Season 4 of AMC’s hit Mad Men will be debuting this July, which means […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
Men do dumb things in order to protect their public reputations. When we feel like our success is at stake, there aren’t many boundaries we won’t cross. And in this episode, the third, Coach Taylor crosses the financial line in […]
Christopher Benson
Mr. Anderson got the last laugh as he departed the country, exposing my two unforgivable sins: a sympathy with postmodernism and an education at Wheaton College. Regarding the first sin, I confess to being a shameless “pomo” and insist that […]
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
As of today, I am officially on holiday. I have some content scheduled to go up to remind you how little you miss me, but other than what I can
Jake MeadorFormation
Dorothy Sayers says that work is what we were put on earth to do. And, personally, I want to agree with her. But supposing one accepts that definition of work, how then do we understand the Sabbath?
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
Over the past few months, we've had some pretty significant troubles with our theme. We've been dealing with hackers and spam, and it's taken
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
Coach Taylor has lost his team. Not "lost" as in they don't respect him. It's worse than that: they aren't even coming
Jake MeadorEvangelicalismHistory/Church History
Yesterday I got coffee with a friend and our conversation eventually turned to the topic of modern American evangelical identity. My friend voiced frustrations with the arbitrary nature of evangelicalism&
Jake MeadorChurch
There were a thousand reasons to hate the small campsite nine friends and I called home for three days last summer. Our "cabin" was more like a trailer.
Jake MeadorEducation
A bit more background on me: My focus during my undergraduate career was post-colonial African history. Someday I want to go to grad school to continue studying it. Depending on the program I get in, I might be able to […]
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
Over the next month, we're going to host a few guest voices here at Mere-O. It's summer, which means that things will probably be a