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Cross Multiplying: Expanding our Vision of the Cross

Jonathan Linebaugh's new book not only offers readers new ways of looking at the work of St Paul, it is also elegant, artful Biblical scholarship.

Eric McLaughlinBiblehealth

Christ Mirrors Back Our World

The Psalms suggest to us that we can and should be people who can lament and rejoice at the same time, for both are part of the experience of God's people.

John CarpenterBibleFeatured

When the Therapeutic God Isn't Sufficient - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

There was blood everywhere. The dead child – a baby of about 20 weeks gestation – just delivered, lay at one end of the table. The nurse took the body away. My wife, at the other end, laying in anguish […]

John CarpenterBibleFeatured

Ruth's Prequel to the Christmas Story - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Every good story has a good back-story. Ridley Scott made two prequels to his popular Alien franchise. This past year Amazon offered Rings of Power to the Lord of the Rings trilogy as a prequel. The Godfather had The Godfather […]

Andrew BeerBibleFeatured

St Paul the Word Sower

“Word sower” deserves reviving. It comes from the Douay-Rheims translation of Acts 17:18: “What is it, that this word sower would say?” The word sower in question is the Apostle Paul, visiting Athens. “Word sower” is a literal rendering of […]

John CarpenterBibleFeatured

Esther and the Theology of Thanksgiving - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Thanksgiving is our most Christian holiday. Just ask the Puritans. They did not give us Thanksgiving as an annual holiday after a great feast to celebrate a year of survival in America and then say, “This was fun, let’s do […]

Andrew KoperskiBibleFeaturedCurrent Politics

Biblical Nationalism - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Several months after the shocking naval victory at Salamis in the fall of 480 BC and Xerxes’ hasty retreat to Asia with his navy, a delegation arrived in Athens. Leading this embassy was Alexander I of Macedon, a longtime friend […]

David MooreBibleFeatured

Why We Never Move Past the Gospel of John - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

David Ford is Regius Professor of Divinity Emeritus at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Selwyn College. The following interview revolves around Ford’s latest book, The Gospel of John: A Theological Commentary. The Gospel of John: A Theological […]

John CarpenterBibleFeatured

Ecclesiastes' Cure for Depression - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Twenty years ago, I was depressed. I was 37 years old living in a nice home in Kentucky. Just a couple of months earlier I thought I was set up for the life I had been working so hard for. […]

Mitch EastBibleFeaturedFormation

This Is My Body Given for You - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

On the night Christ was betrayed by Judas, Our Lord celebrated the Passover with all of his brothers, including the traitor himself. Other than the disciple Jesus loved, eleven of His chosen men would later abandon him. In light of […]

Joshua JensenBibleFeatured

Aardvarks and Alphabets - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Just 35 miles from my home in northeast Cambodia, there lives an indigenous minority called the Kachok. There are about four thousand Kachok in nine different villages. While they are ethnically related to other tribes in our region, as well […]

Andrew ArndtBibleFeatured

Revisiting the Sacrifice of Isaac - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

J. Richard Middleton. Abraham’s Silence: The Binding of Isaac, The Suffering of Job, and How to Talk Back to God. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2021. 272pp, $26.99. Did Abraham pass the test in Genesis 22? And does it matter for how […]