My Own Remonstrance on “The Reformer”
Reading Christianity Today’s article on Dr. Albert Mohler titled “The Reformer” was genuinely perplexing and, well, disappointing. Now, I’ll admit that my response is coming from a particular perspective: I’m a student at Southern Seminary nearing completion of my MDiv....
Americolatry
Over at Patheos, Timothy Dalrymple has posted a series of questions for Christians to think through regarding our concern and veneration of America. His questions are deserving of a response, not only because they are well-stated, but because deciphering the...
Christian Encounters: William F. Buckley
Count me disappointed. This was the bitter taste left in my mouth after reading what I had hoped would be an excellent book pertaining to an important subject on an unbelievably influential thinker. I am an enormous William F. Buckley...
Dispatches from the Values Voter Summit: Needing a Nexus
Events at Values Voter Summit 2010 have begun. As I write, I’m watching Newt Gingrich speak during the morning session on Saturday morning. It is not my intent to summarize yesterday’s events inasmuch as it is to capture the ethos...
Matt Anderson on “Focusing on the Family”
Matthew Lee Anderson, lead writer at Mere-O, is without internet access for the moment and asked me, apologetically, to put up a link to his newest article at Christianity Today, “Culturally Focusing on the Family.” As expected, it’s excellent. A...
Doug Wilson on Glenn Beck
I apologize for bringing up the issue of Glenn Beck once again. As I expected, the comments surrounding him garner different, more vitriolic attitudes than I think is typical here at Mere-O. Below is a video I found helpful from...
Mere-O @ Values Voter Summit 2010
At this week’s upcoming Values Voter Summit 2010, I’ll be on assignment covering the events for MereOrthodoxy.com. Note: I will not be “live blogging” as much as I will be providing a daily summary of what’s occurring, whose shaking things...
Why are Beck and Palin Popular?
Yet those who deplore Beck and Palin fail to see that the reason for their popularity stems from their uninhibited willingness to evoke and champion precisely those values and themes that the overly fastidious and sophisticated perceive as crude and...
Civil Religion: A Modest Apologia
There’s been a torrent of debate in the evangelical blogosphere regarding Glenn Beck’s 8/28 “Restoring Honor Rally.” Dividing lines, more or less, have been drawn; allegations of evangelical elitism by Beck’s defenders and accustations of naive, nationalism by his critics....
On the Proposed Quran Burning
We at Mere-O, seeking to embody a robust Christian orthodoxy coupled with sound social engagement, hereby condemn the proposed Quran burning by a church in Florida whose name we will not dignify by specifying. In an age where religious discourse...