Tag: christianity
Five Fundamental Questions Conservative Evangelicals Must Address
We’ve been told often in recent years that conservative evangelicals must adapt to changing social conditions or find themselves consigned to irrelevance. On matters of both style and substance, many evangelicals have been motivated by an anxiety that they simply...
To Malick’s “Wonder”
Terrence Malick’s latest, To the Wonder, is an apt follow-up to the enigmatic director’s 2011 classic, The Tree of Life. Both films are beautiful experiences of image and sound, deeply personal memoirs and heartfelt explorations of Christian faith. To the...
Evangelicals and Foreign Adoption
Editor’s Note: I’m pleased to host this reflection on adoption by Maralee Bradley. As longtime readers know, I’ve kept one eye on the evangelical adoption movement. This is a very personal and very difficult subject for many people, and worth considering...
How to Think About American Politics (by a British Observer)
Editor’s Note: I am thrilled to introduce Alastair Roberts to readers of Mere-O. Since I have started reading him a few months back, he has proved himself to be one of the most thoughtful and charitable interlocutors online. I highly commend the below to...
The Contest Between Evolution and Christianity is a Duel to the Death
Editor’s note: Peter Blair is editor of Fare Forward, one of the best new sites to hit the interwebs in a while. I’m on record saying that it’s like us at Mere-O, only better. I’m thrilled to steal him away...
The Dim Future for Liberal Protestantism: Douthat and O’Donovan Together
I haven’t said much about Ross Douthat’s new book Bad Religion, in part because I’ve found it hard to think straight about a book that commends “mere orthodoxy” as a form of Christian public engagement. But unlike Chesterton, who gets there through...
Desiderius Erasmus and “It wasn’t me, it was God”
For Erasmus, grace is active in our acting, in the beauty of virtue displayed that engages and transforms our affections, allowing us to play a part that becomes our own as we play it. […] Erasmus subverts the distinction between...
Dwight Moody, Heaven, and the Resurrection of the Body
N.T. Wright’s works have had many good effects. Inspiring eager readers to police people’s use of heaven is not one of them. “Heaven” in much of evangelical discourse functions as shorthand for a whole nexus of ideas that are, well,...