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Jake MeadorFeaturedCultureCurrent Politics

To Consume - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

My friend Shane Morris whipped up rather a remarkable storm recently on Twitter with this: Millennials who are very cavalier about not having children are in for a shock when they enter their 40s & realize life is only half […]

Matthew MillinerFeaturedChurchJournalJournal 3

The Mega Church Born Again - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I arrived in the Thessaloniki airport and passed by the customs office, its door casually propped open, and saw everything I had come to Greece to avoid: a framed reproduction of Warner Sallman’s blonde-haired, blue-eyed American Jesus, testimony to the […]

Myles WerntzFeaturedCultureEconomics and BusinessJournalJournal 3

Corporations Can't Love You - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In a recent guest column at Anne Helen Peterson’s Culture Study, Wendy Robinson wrote about her forays into the world of Peloton, on a growing phenomenon: the lack of community which people find within the ecosystems created by consumer products.[1] […]

Jake MeadorChurch

Mark Sayers's "Sin Chart" - Commonplaces

From a recent Rebuilders episode: A frame for understanding how different belief systems see and interpret the world. First, five diagnostic questions: What is the purpose of life? What is sin? What is the world? What is its attitude toward […]

Jake MeadorChurch

Mark Sayers's "Sin Chart" - Commonplaces

From a recent Rebuilders episode: A frame for understanding how different belief systems see and interpret the world. First, five diagnostic questions: What is the purpose of life? What is sin? What is the world? What is its attitude toward […]

Paul Frank SpencerFeatured

Something Essential Abides - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Movies on the multiverse have some serious advantages over their single-world brethren when it comes to entertainment value. Once a creator admits into his work the idea that our universe is only one among many, literally limitless possibility opens up […]

Andrew ArndtFeaturedFormation

The Cross in Our Calling: A Reflection on Mary's Magnificat - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Mary is chosen for the sacred work of bearing the Incarnate Son of God, and the unforgettable words we know as The Magnificat come tumbling out: And Mary said: “My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God […]

Andrew ArndtFeaturedFormation

What Can Contemporary Christians Learn from the Desert Fathers and Mothers? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I am a working pastor. That means that I have joined the company of those for whom the care of souls is the sum and substance of the job description. It is our life’s preoccupation, our central work.

Jake MeadorBook Reviews

CS Lewis on Political Idolatries - Commonplaces

From Screwtape Letters: Let him begin by treating the Patriotism or the Pacifism as a part of his religion. Then let him, under the influence of the partisan spirit, come to regard it as the most important part. Then quietly and […]

Jake MeadorBook Reviews

CS Lewis on Political Idolatries - Commonplaces

From Screwtape Letters: Let him begin by treating the Patriotism or the Pacifism as a part of his religion. Then let him, under the influence of the partisan spirit, come to regard it as the most important part. Then quietly and […]

Cameron ShafferFeaturedChurchEvangelicalismFormation

Our Spiritual Malaise - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“There are some people [that] tell us that they are tremendously interested in the gospel as a point of view, as a Christian philosophy…Christianity is to them a matter of tremendous interest and they believe and proclaim that if only […]

Jake MeadorEconomicsBook ReviewsJulius NyererePan-Africanism

Reading the Pan-Africanists: Julius Nyerere (II) - Commonplaces

Continuing: The production of wealth, whether by primitive or modern methods, requires three things. First, land. God has given us the land, and it is from the land that we get the raw materials which we reshape to meet our […]