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Bill Melone

Bill Melone gardens, teaches, and writes in Philadelphia.

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Bill Melone gardens, teaches, and writes in Philadelphia.

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Amish Millionaires and the One 'Yes'

Every 'yes' we seek to say to a certain habit or form of life implies a thousand 'nos.' But we must always keep the thing we say 'yes' to at the center.

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An Interview with Isaac Adams on "Talking About Race" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Isaac Adams serves as lead pastor at Iron City Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and is the founder of United? We Pray, a ministry devoted to praying about racial justice. The following transcripted interview revolves around his book, Talking About Race: […]

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A Theology of Infertility - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

After years of secondary infertility, my wife and I discovered she was pregnant on Father’s Day of 2016. It was a stunning moment for us, a seemingly miraculous answer to prayers that we had mostly given up on. But three […]

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A Second Fundamentalism and the Butterfly of American Christianity - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We live in a time of division, as many of us can wearily testify, but we also live in a time of disorientation. Navigating divisions can be challenging, but the challenge multiplies when we are disoriented, and that is a […]

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Fragility, Heroism, and the Conditions of Modern Masculinity - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Near the end of the 2009 movie Zombieland, Woody Harrelson’s character shares his deep grief at losing his three-year-old son. Tallahassee, the gun-slinging warrior who kills zombies by opening his car door into their faces while driving, is distraught. A […]

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Cultural Assimilation and the Curious Cases of Jessica Krug and Rachel Dolezal - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

After Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, educator Jane Elliot held an experiment with her elementary school students that she called “Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes.” The experiment became famous, and she repeated it for various audiences for years, […]

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Book Review: How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Racial injustice has become an unavoidable topic for American Christianity. It challenges all levels of relational unity, from large ecclesial networks to personal friendships. When relational unity is challenged and fractured, we naturally search for the source of the problem, […]

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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.