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Kirsten SandersFamilyFeaturedAnthropology

Tethered Still - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I am a mother and a theologian. These two facts belong together, inextricable as they are for me and my experience of them. I was pregnant with my first child as I began my doctoral work; I carried her to […]

Justin HawkinsFeaturedAnthropology

Dignity Beyond Accomplishment - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“The examination combines the techniques of an observing hierarchy and those of a normalizing judgment. It is a normalizing gaze, a surveillance that makes it possible to quantify, to classify, and to punish. It establishes over others a visibility through […]

John EhrettAnthropologyBook Reviews

Never Really Our Own

Tara Isabella Burton's new book is overflowing with ideas, but its positive vision lacks any real teeth to overcome the problems Burton identifies.

Joshua HeavinFeaturedAnthropology

The Mystery of Being Human in a Dehumanizing World - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In the summer of 2021 I began driving an ice cream truck. My small contribution to Howdy Homemade Ice Cream, an ice cream shop that deliberately employs workers with intellectual, emotional, and/or physical disabilities, such as Down Syndrome, was to […]

Cort GatliffFeaturedHealth and MedicineAnthropology

Book Review: The End of the Christian Life by J. Todd Billings - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We live in a death-denying and death-defying culture. We know, on an intellectual level, that one day we will die, yet we tend to avoid contemplating this inescapable truth more than is strictly necessary. For modern people, death is an […]

Matthew LaPineFeaturedembodimentAnthropology

The Logic of the Body - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

A Thomistic psychology will help us understand the complex relationship between our bodies and our emotions, helping us know how to aid wounded people.

Bill MeloneFeaturedAnthropology

The Tribe of Ishmael: Whiteness and Christian Identity

Does Peter's sin in Galatians 2 include a kind of racism? Our answer to the question will inform our attitude toward 'whiteness' in American evangelicalism.

Tara Isabella BurtonFeaturedAnthropology

Star of the Sea | Mere Orthodoxy

This is an essay about Mary. This is a piece of theology. This is a story about a man I didn't know. This is a debate between proponents of different views.

Chris KrychoFeaturedEpistemologyAnthropology

Faithful Extension and the Question of Human Origins - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The questions the church confronts most severely at present are questions of theological anthropology—so human origins and the doctrine of the Fall matter.

Samuel JamesFeaturedEvangelicalismAnthropology

The Sexual Revolution Is Abortion

The sexual revolution depends upon a literally violent division of individual identity and individual bodies. The most brutal proof of this is abortion.

Chris KrychoembodimentAnthropologyHermeneutics

God Become Man: Towards a Richer Theology of the Incarnation

Though the idea we ought to "incarnate" Christ to the world as Christ "incarnated" the Godhead to us is attractive, it misses something much better.

Chris KrychoAnthropology

Less Noisome Insistence, More Joyful Exuberance on Heaven

I suspect we evangelicals do not so much think wrongly about the new heavens and the new earth as not think of them at all.