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Paul and the Slave Girl: Racism and the Great Gospel Narrative
I’m pleased to publish this guest feature from Joseph Torres. It’s impossible to be a culturally aware Christian and not be sensitive to the high tension environment in which we live. Just last week, a protest was held in Charlottesville,...
Fatherhood and Carrying the Fire
(Short explanatory note: My dad has been in the ICU with life-threatening injuries for over two weeks now due to medical issues which you can read about in more detail here. If you want to know more about how he’s...
Brief Update
Hey all—I’ve got a couple things I’m hoping to get published soon from other contributors and I’m wanting to continue the series I started last week. That said, my dad has been in the hospital since last Monday afternoon and...
33 Under 33 at Christianity Today: A few quick thoughts
Christianity Today’s new cover story is a list of 33 “young believers who [they] think are leading today’s church in key ways—and who embody what it will look like in the years to come.” Or, as my good friend Eric...
On the Two Aspects of Salvation, Redux
In light of Chuck’s excellent essay on Calvin’s understanding of justification and sanctification, I want to draw your attention to this bit by Oliver O’Donovan at the recent event in Washington D.C.: …In grasping what God has done in raising...
Announcing Mere-O’s Latest Effort: Mere-O Notes
It’s a little-known fact about Mere-O that we were “microblogging” before Twitter or Tumblr was “a thing.” Between 2006 and 2009, we kept a curated list of links on our sidebar that was one of the more popular things that...
A Tribute to Edith Schaeffer
If my house were burning to the ground and my family was safely outside, there’d be one book in my library I’d most hope to save from the fire: a paperback of Edith Schaeffer’s 1975 book What is a Family?...
The Torrey Honors Institute Welcomes Dr. Christopher Mitchell
Longtime readers of Mere-O know my fondness for my alma mater, Biola University’s Torrey Honors Institute.* When my good friend and founder of the program John Mark Reynolds left, it was something of an upheaval. Torrey and John Mark were almost synonymous...
Notes on Christmas Camp
Last week I attended a Sufjan Stevens concert in Hollywood at the Fonda Theater. It was Sufjan’s Christmas concert tour, celebrating the immense collection of Christmas music in Suf’s catalogue (most recently the just-released 5-disc set, Silver & Gold, which...
On Thanksgiving and the Act of Gratitude
I have taken to joking in recent months that given the shape of my life at this particular moment, I’ve lost every right to complain–ever. And it’s true: I have a great deal to be thankful for. I am in...