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Jake MeadorChurch

A Church That Can't Exist in the World - Commonplaces

Recent years have seen many evangelical thinkers become more alert to the work that individual doctrines do in our broader understanding of the Christian faith and life. The neglected, occasionally despised, and much misunderstood doctrine of divine impassibility, for example, […]

Jake MeadorChurch

A Church That Can't Exist in the World - Commonplaces

Recent years have seen many evangelical thinkers become more alert to the work that individual doctrines do in our broader understanding of the Christian faith and life. The neglected, occasionally despised, and much misunderstood doctrine of divine impassibility, for example, […]

Guest WriterFeaturedEvangelicalism

Letter from a Victorian Exvangelical - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

From the Christian Observer, 1858, pp.251-256 Edited by Moses Bratrud Difficulties of Young Men It would be unfair, I think, not to give the “Christian Observer” credit for more candour than is to be found in many other publications of […]

Moses BratrudFeaturedEvangelicalism

Victorian Exvangelicals - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses. [1] John Ruskin, 1851 Sometimes it is being […]

Rhys LavertyFeatured

The Ends of Worlds: Living With the Inevitable in Paul Kingsnorth’s Buckmaster Trilogy - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

When will the world end? In Paul Kingsnorth’s reckoning, it already has lots of times, in fact. “Worlds are always ending — that, it turns out, is one of my themes, or tics, or obsessions” — he confessed that in […]

L. M. SacasasFeatured

Toward a Technological Renewal - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Even just ten years ago, serious attention to the question of technology in Christian communities was hard to come by. Today, that seems to have changed. Along with the rest of American society, Christians have grown more attentive to the […]

Susannah Black RobertsFeatured

Astronomy with Dante - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Sperello di Serego Alighieri is an Italian astronomer. Beginning in 1990, he was at the Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory in Florence, but he has retired from that. More recently, his interest has turned to his ancestor, the poet Dante Alighieri. This […]

Jessica JoustraFeaturedChurchCurrent Politics

Modern, Yet Faithful: Lessons from Herman Bavinck - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Herman Bavinck was the son of a conservative Reformed preacher, born in 1854 in a relatively small town (Hoogeveen) in a small, low-lands country (the Netherlands).

Joseph RheaFeaturedFormation

The Ministry of Salt - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

There Israel encamped before the mountain, 3 while Moses went up to God. The Lord called to him out of the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel: 4 ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to […]

Jake Meador

Concerning Candor - Commonplaces

A few readers, responding to the recent PR style essay, have asked what I meant when I referred to adopting a posture of candor as opposed to postures of aggressive belligerence or a kind of apologetic suppliance.

Jake Meador

Concerning Candor - Commonplaces

A few readers, responding to the recent PR style essay, have asked what I meant when I referred to adopting a posture of candor as opposed to postures of aggressive belligerence or a kind of apologetic suppliance.

Andrew HubbardFeaturedCulture

The Joys of Agonistic Life - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I was pleasantly surprised when he came up the stairs with a number of Calvin and Hobbes collections. The used bookstore owner had forgotten to price them; so, to make things easy he said they would be $10 each. The […]