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Jake MeadorPoliticsCulture War

If It Were Me, I'd Try Not Helping the Christian Nationalists

Secular media that treat utterly ordinary Christian beliefs as markers of Christian nationalism will only help promote totalitarian Christian nationalism.

Michael ShindlerPoliticsFeaturedCultureHistory

The Fate of Cain - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Since the modern-turn, no topic has provoked more speculation—from as many angles and at the nexus of so many disciplines—than that of modernity itself. We speculate as to when it really started, where it has as of yet taken hold, […]

Susannah Black RobertsPolitics

In Response to Sumpter on Ethnicity and Polity - Radio Free Thulcandra

Toby Sumpter has written a thoughtful response to my Theopolis piece on Wolfe’s Case for Christian Nationalism. I wanted to delay responding till post-Christmas (YES, I KNOW, it is still Christmas till Epiphany, calm down) to avoid generating Discourse, which […]

Susannah Black RobertsPolitics

In Response to Sumpter on Ethnicity and Polity - Radio Free Thulcandra

Toby Sumpter has written a thoughtful response to my Theopolis piece on Wolfe’s Case for Christian Nationalism. I wanted to delay responding till post-Christmas (YES, I KNOW, it is still Christmas till Epiphany, calm down) to avoid generating Discourse, which […]

David KoyzisPoliticsFeatured

Tradition as a Way of Life: Yoram Hazony's Winsome Defense - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Professed conservatives have long been at a disadvantage relative to their liberal and social democratic opponents and seem continually to lose ground to these ideologies claiming the progressive label. This is because the principles of liberalism and socialism are straightforward […]

Miles SmithPoliticsFeaturedHistory

The Danger of Forgetting America's Anti-Racist History - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Jake Meador has offered a thoughtful and challenging piece concerning the relationship between Christianity and the United States. Meador’s most salient point is that he has “become very suspicious of accounts of Christianity’s place in American life that leave out […]

Holly OrdwayPoliticsFeaturedJournalJournal 2

Hobbits and Empire: Geography and the Life of Nations in Tolkien’s Writings - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

As we journey through J.R.R. Tolkien’s world of Middle-earth, we find a remarkable variety of distinctive landscapes, from the rural towns of the Shire, to the abandoned halls of Moria, the Elvish tree-city of Lothlórien, the Forest of Drúadan, the […]

Malcolm FoleyPoliticsFeaturedJournalJournal 2

On Healing: Learning from Separatists - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The idea of a black nation seems so far-fetched as to be ludicrous, but if you entertain it for a minute, even as an impossible dream, it should give you a feeling of wholeness and belonging you’ve never had and […]

Jake MeadorPoliticsFeatured

Christians in the Gray Zone: The Strong Gods are Back - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In his 1978 commencement address at Harvard University, the great Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn argued that what united the capitalist west and communist east mattered more than what divided them. Both, he said, had lost any feel for the transcendent, […]

Randall FowlerPoliticsFeatured

The Axis of Evil Turns 20: Reflections on the State of the Union - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Given the state of the world, I expect that the president’s speech tonight will garner more viewers than it normally would. To the average viewer, the president’s State of the Union address can come across as a drawn out pep […]

David MoorePoliticsFeatured

We the Fallen People: An Interview with Robert McKenzie - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Robert Tracy McKenzie is Arthur F. Holmes Chair of Faith and Learning and professor of history at Wheaton College. The following interview revolves around McKenzie’s latest book, We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy. We […]

Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsFeaturedJournalJournal 1

Marriage as Moral Orthodoxy - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

As evangelicals watch megachurches and other institutions wobble in their convictions about marriage, we have sought to buttress support by elevating the traditional view of the doctrine to a matter of orthodoxy. Always up for a good statement — or […]