As in previous years, here is a compilation of the best writing we’ve published in 2020. God has been kind to us this year as we are now wrapping up what has been our best year for traffic since the highly disruptive algorithmic changes Facebook made in 2018. (2016 and 2017 were very strong years before declines in 2018 and 2019, which is a fairly common story for online media outlets due to the aforementioned changes on Facebook.)
Also, if you’ll forgive a bit of year-end fundraising: We did everything listed below (and more) on an annual budget of a bit more than $8,000. We’re now trying to grow our budget substantially ahead of next year’s launch of the Mere O print edition, which Lord-willing will be arriving in subscriber inboxes in late August/early September of 2021.
If you have benefitted from our publication this year, would you consider a year-end gift? If you give through New Horizons Foundation, your gift is tax-deductible. Or you can join our Patreon. We’ll have more news on how to subscribe to the print magazine early next year. (If you gave at the $100 level or higher on our Kickstarter, you already have a subscription.)
Now, without further delay, the year that was at Mere Orthodoxy:
January
Our Fathers Left Us Evangelicalism
Notes on Christianity Today’s Impeachment Editorial
The Mystique of the Pro-Life Movement: On Trump and the March for Life
February
Death in Venice
Dwyane Wade’s Selective Essentialism
March
Grift Before the Storm: Three Days at CPAC 2020
The Hidden Transubstantiation of Contemporary Worship
How Should Christians Respond to the Coronavirus?
Learning in Quarantine
Reasonable Service: What the PCA’s Latest Controversy Says about Its Understanding of Outreach, Evangelism, and Ethics
“No Wealth But Life”: Moral Reasoning in a Pandemic
April
The God Who Hears Our Laments
Sacraments, Technology, and Streaming Worship in a Pandemic
Our Lives or Our Freedoms: The Fear of Tyranny in a Time of Pandemic
Why Is Anglicanism a Gateway to Catholicism?
May
Lynching Then and Lynching Now: Racial Justice as Christian Imperative
Cats and Sixty Foot Whales: Reflections on Children’s Books
Natural Law from Noah to Milton Friedman: A Review of David Vandrunen, “Politics after Christendom”
The One God of Katherine Sonderegger
Keep Christianity Weird
June
Against Evangelical Minimalism
Why We Need the Doctrine of Eternal Generation
The Cost of Food in America
Guns and the Shaping of Character
July
D. B. Hart’s Inquisitor
Making Sense of Kanye 2020
August
American Evangelicalism isn’t patriarchal or feminized. It’s matrilineal.
Against Textbooks: Why We Need Bigger Stories
In Defense of Premodern Exegesis
To Open or Not to Open? A Humble Plea
The Strange Death of the Populist Dream and the Victory of Woke Integralism
Southern Guilt, Southern Gospel
September
The Church of Individualism
An Appeal from a Christian Liberal Arts University President
The Market Made Me Do It: The Scandal of the Evangelical College
Tethered Still
October
Who’s Your Authority?: Notes on Ideology and Enemies
Radio Theatre and the Problem of Evangelical Art
It’s Not the Economy: Big Tech, Anti-Trust, and the Future of Political Liberalism
November
Politics Is More Than Abortion vs Character
Markets and the Strangulation of the American Family
December
Searching for Other Feminisms: An Interview with Leah Libresco Sargeant
Time is Always Time: Christopher Nolan, T. S. Eliot, and Creatureliness
Dementia and the God Who Remembers
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