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Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, National Review, Comment, Books & Culture, and Christianity Today. He is a contributing editor with Plough and a contributing writer at the Dispatch. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.
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We should not overstate the risk to Christian conservatives following the Bostock ruling, but neither should we act as if all is well in our movement.
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This piece is a brief summary of the PCA's AIC report on sexuality
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This pairs very well with yesterday’s excerpt from Dawson. From Desire of the Nations:
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From “The Significance of Bolshevism” (written in 1933): Man cannot live in a spiritual void; he needs some fixed social standards and some absolute intellectual principles. Bolshevism at least replaces the spiritual anarchy of bourgeois society by a rigid order […]
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As I was publishing my notes on the First Things story, Rod Dreher was typing up another set of thoughts on the matter. Attempting to keep up with Rod is a perilous thing, of course, especially when one has small children […]
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The fears over First Things's decline need to account for the broader difficulties facing religious conservative media in the US today.
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Gutierrez in A Theology of Liberation: The model which distinguishes faith and temporal realities, Church and world, leads to the perception of two missions in the church and to a sharp differentiation between the roles of the priest and the lay […]
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Our moment is starved for this sort of intellectual spirit:
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Weird Christianity, as defined in Tara Isabella Burton's NYT column is a welcome movement in the American church. But dangers to it abound on all sides.
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A 19-year-old South Sudanese man is facing imminent deportation over robbery charges he pled guilty to as a 16-year-old. This is his family's story.
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Let’s start here. This is what we know about what happened in February in Brunswick GA when Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed according to the New York Times: BRUNSWICK, Ga. — Ahmaud Arbery loved to run. It was how […]
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Gregory's "Politics and the Order of Love" is a helpful guide for thinking carefully about key questions in the debates happening on the American right.
