> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://mereorthodoxy.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Best of Mere Orthodoxy 2020 - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture - URL: https://mereorthodoxy.com/best-mere-orthodoxy-2020/ - Published: 2020-12-29T06:00:33.000Z - Updated: 2026-05-18T15:41:05.000Z - Description: 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 […] - Author: Mere Orthodoxy - Tags: Jake Meador, Featured 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](https://newhorizonsfoundation.com/waystodonate?pid=2121-j-n-mere-orthodoxy&Itemid=105&ref=mereorthodoxy.com), your gift is tax-deductible. Or you can [join our Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/mereorthodoxy?ref=mereorthodoxy.com). 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](https://mereorthodoxy.com/fathers-left-us-evangelicalism/) > [Notes on Christianity Today’s Impeachment Editorial](https://mereorthodoxy.com/christianity-today-trump-impeachment/) > [The Mystique of the Pro-Life Movement: On Trump and the March for Life](https://mereorthodoxy.com/donald-trump-march-for-life-2020/) ## February > [Death in Venice](https://mereorthodoxy.com/coronavirus-italy-venice/) > [Dwyane Wade’s Selective Essentialism](https://mereorthodoxy.com/dwyane-wades-ellen-degeneres/) ## March > [Grift Before the Storm: Three Days at CPAC 2020](https://mereorthodoxy.com/cpac-2020/) > [The Hidden Transubstantiation of Contemporary Worship](https://mereorthodoxy.com/hidden-transubstantiation-contemporary-worship/) > [How Should Christians Respond to the Coronavirus?](https://mereorthodoxy.com/christians-respond-coronavirus/) > [Learning in Quarantine](https://mereorthodoxy.com/learning-in-quarantine/) > [Reasonable Service: What the PCA’s Latest Controversy Says about Its Understanding of Outreach, Evangelism, and Ethics](https://mereorthodoxy.com/reasonable-service-memorial-pca-controversy/) > [“No Wealth But Life”: Moral Reasoning in a Pandemic](https://mereorthodoxy.com/moral-reasoning-coronavirus-pandemic/) ## April > [The God Who Hears Our Laments](https://mereorthodoxy.com/god-hears-laments/) > [Sacraments, Technology, and Streaming Worship in a Pandemic](https://mereorthodoxy.com/churches-livestream-public-worship/) > [Our Lives or Our Freedoms: The Fear of Tyranny in a Time of Pandemic](https://mereorthodoxy.com/freedom-pandemic/) > [Why Is Anglicanism a Gateway to Catholicism?](https://mereorthodoxy.com/anglicanism-gateway-catholicism/) ## May > [Lynching Then and Lynching Now: Racial Justice as Christian Imperative](https://mereorthodoxy.com/ahmaud-arbery/) > [Cats and Sixty Foot Whales: Reflections on Children’s Books](https://mereorthodoxy.com/cats-sixty-foot-whales-reflections-childrens-books/) > [Natural Law from Noah to Milton Friedman: A Review of David Vandrunen, “Politics after Christendom”](https://mereorthodoxy.com/politics-after-christendom-book-review/) > [The One God of Katherine Sonderegger](https://mereorthodoxy.com/katherine-sondereggers-systematic-theology-volume-one/) > [Keep Christianity Weird](https://mereorthodoxy.com/keep-christianity-weird/) ## June > [Against Evangelical Minimalism](https://mereorthodoxy.com/against-evangelical-minimalism/) > [Why We Need the Doctrine of Eternal Generation](https://mereorthodoxy.com/eternal-generation/) > [The Cost of Food in America](https://mereorthodoxy.com/cost-food-america/) > [Guns and the Shaping of Character](https://mereorthodoxy.com/guns-character/) ## July > [D. B. Hart’s Inquisitor](https://mereorthodoxy.com/db-harts-inquisitor/) > [Making Sense of Kanye 2020](https://mereorthodoxy.com/making-sense-kanye-2020/) ## August > [American Evangelicalism isn’t patriarchal or feminized. It’s matrilineal.](https://mereorthodoxy.com/evangelicals-matrilineal/) > [Against Textbooks: Why We Need Bigger Stories](https://mereorthodoxy.com/against-textbooks/) > [In Defense of Premodern Exegesis](https://mereorthodoxy.com/defense-premodern-exegesis/) > [To Open or Not to Open? A Humble Plea](https://mereorthodoxy.com/open-not-open-humble-plea/) > [The Strange Death of the Populist Dream and the Victory of Woke Integralism](https://mereorthodoxy.com/woke-integralism/) > [Southern Guilt, Southern Gospel](https://mereorthodoxy.com/southern-guilt-southern-gospel/) ## September > [The Church of Individualism](https://mereorthodoxy.com/the-church-of-individualism/) > [An Appeal from a Christian Liberal Arts University President](https://mereorthodoxy.com/appeal-christian-liberal-arts-university-president/) > [The Market Made Me Do It: The Scandal of the Evangelical College](https://mereorthodoxy.com/market-made-scandal-evangelical-college/) > [Tethered Still](https://mereorthodoxy.com/tethered-still/) ## October > [Who’s Your Authority?: Notes on Ideology and Enemies](https://mereorthodoxy.com/whos-authority-notes-ideology-enemies/) > [Radio Theatre and the Problem of Evangelical Art](https://mereorthodoxy.com/radio-theatre-problem-evangelical-art/) > [It’s Not the Economy: Big Tech, Anti-Trust, and the Future of Political Liberalism](https://mereorthodoxy.com/google-anti-trust-case/) ## November > [Politics Is More Than Abortion vs Character](https://mereorthodoxy.com/politics-abortion-character/) > [Markets and the Strangulation of the American Family](https://mereorthodoxy.com/markets-strangulation-american-family/) ## December > [Searching for Other Feminisms: An Interview with Leah Libresco Sargeant](https://mereorthodoxy.com/searching-feminisms-interview-leah-libresco-sargeant/) > [Time is Always Time: Christopher Nolan, T. S. Eliot, and Creatureliness](https://mereorthodoxy.com/time-always-time-christopher-nolan-t-s-eliot-creatureliness/) > [Dementia and the God Who Remembers](https://mereorthodoxy.com/dementia-god-remembers/)