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Jake MeadorEvangelicalism

Evangelicalism, Reformed Catholicism, Ctd.

Jake continues his reflection on why evangelicalism has failed and what can be done to help promote renewal.

Jon AskonasTechnology

Piety, Technology, and Tradition

We need to build rather than conserve not because this moment is 'difficult' in a generalized sense, but because technology has dissolved our traditions.

Jake MeadorEvangelicalismPolitical TheologyHistory/Church History

The End of Evangelicalism and the Possibility of Reformed Catholicism

The evangelical moment is ending, buried under contradictions and corruption. But a new, better chapter of Christian history in America might be beginning.

Jake MeadorFeaturedCulture

Re: Mobs and Cancel Culture - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Due to a variety of factors, journalism in the digital age has in many places been swallowed by PR. Part of this is a function of the way online networks tend to work, while part of it is due to […]

Daniel DormanFeatured

Why We Should Read Poetry - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

For most people today the reader of poetry is a quaint and obscure character, like a collector of antique dolls or stamps. The reader of poetry is looked upon as someone absorbed in a personal and sentimental interest with almost […]

Ginny OwensFeaturedEvangelicalism

A Long Faithfulness in the Same Direction: What I Learned About God from Tim Keller - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I was eight. Seated at the old, out of tune, upright piano in the back corner of our dining room, I rehearsed again the hymn I’d just discovered how to play. “Great is Thy Faithfulness” has surprising major chords where […]

Stiven PeterFeaturedCultureEvangelicalism

Tim Keller: Missionary to the Cities - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

On Sundays, I go to a church whose senior pastor and elder board were mentored by Tim Keller. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I attend classes in a seminary brought to New York by Tim Keller. When I see a homeless […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism

I think we should stop shrinking back. - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

There’s an old Hauerwas quote that a Mennonite friend of mine never tires of sharing: Christians are often tempted, particularly in this time called modern, to say more than we know. We are so tempted because we fear we do […]

Samuel JamesFeaturedEvangelicalism

Does Maturity Still Matter? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I’ve been reading Mark Sayers’s interesting book A Non-Anxious Presence, and was particularly struck by this passage: As a network is swamped by chronic anxiety, it is marked by reactivity. Those within the system no longer act rationally, but rather, […]

Jake MeadorChurch

People Aren't Avatars for All the Good and/or Bad Things - Commonplaces

Here’s a bit of PCA trivia for you. In the last two years, three of the denomination’s most influential pastors have gone home to be with the Lord. They are Frank Barker, Harry Reeder, and Tim Keller. Of the three, […]

Jake MeadorChurch

People Aren't Avatars for All the Good and/or Bad Things - Commonplaces

Here’s a bit of PCA trivia for you. In the last two years, three of the denomination’s most influential pastors have gone home to be with the Lord. They are Frank Barker, Harry Reeder, and Tim Keller. Of the three, […]

John EhrettFeaturedCultureHistory

The End of Viking Vitalism - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The third act of Robert Zemeckis’s underrated Beowulf adaptation begins with a dour meditation. “We men are the monsters now,” the aging hero rumbles. “The time of heroes is dead, Wiglaf—the Christ God has killed it, leaving humankind with nothing […]