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Evangelicals need to read Richard Hooker. - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I’m pleased to host this excellent interview between Mere Fidelity contributor Alastair Roberts and my friend Dr. Brad Littlejohn. Dr. Littlejohn, who did his doctoral work at Edinburgh with Mere O favorite Oliver O’Donovan, has just published a popular level […]

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Next Week: The Future of the Church | Mere Orthodoxy

Biola University's "Future of the Church" event set to happen next week should be a fascinating discussion between four leading Christian theologians.

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What Proximity is Worth

Reflections on Q Boston, healthy disagreement and the importance of relational proximity in a world of disembodied discourse and principles over people.

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Reviewing The New Parish and New Evangelical Language

The New Parish is a book with a great idea executed only half as well as it might have been, due in no small part to the dreadful language the writers use.

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Respectability and the Plausibility of Orthodoxy

The rise of moralistic, therapeutic deism has created new challenges for the church and, particularly, for the concept of religious orthodoxy.

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Should Sermons Be Published?

A recent Leadership Journal article explained how podcasting changes how we preach but never asked if sermons should be published in the first place.

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When Churches and Parachurches Drift Apart

Despite the imperfections of every church this side of heaven, the church is God’s Plan A. How churches and parachurches interact play into this.

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The Ethics of Jayber Crow - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry Anthony Esolen notes that Berry’s longest Port William novel, Jayber Crow, is in many ways a modern day retelling of Dante. Berry’s own language throughout the book suggests the comparison, as his narrator, the […]

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The Future of Protestantism Full Roundup - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Normally this would go up over at Notes, but we wanted to be sure that everyone sees the full roundup of responses (so far) to last week’s Future of Protestantism event at Biola. There figure to be more responses in […]

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On Church Membership and Theological Disagreement | Mere Orthodoxy

We often mistakenly believe that church membership ought to be determined chiefly or exclusively on the basis of theological disagreement.

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The Future of Protestantism Video

The Future of Protestantism video at Torrey Honors of Biola University is now online. Matthew Lee Anderson reflects on it.

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Are Millennials Joining High Church Traditions? | Mere Orthodoxy

The story of millennials joining high church traditions is becoming more common in the traditionalist blogosphere--but is it telling the whole story?