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Jake MeadorEvangelicalismCulture War

Anti-Wokeness and the Evangelical Fracturing

In the aftermath of the great awokening, we have seen the emergence of four new and distinct evangelical responses.

Mark KremerFeaturedCulture WarCurrent Politics

Fidelity or Financial Security: A Choice Facing Lincoln's Faith-Based Nonprofits - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“Soft Totalitarianism”, the term coined by Rod Dreher for non-governmental control over individuals and organizations, is rearing its head more frequently and perniciously in a multitude of sectors of American life. One expects to find cancel culture, extreme DEI initiatives, […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedCulture WarCurrent Politics

The PR Style in Christian Media - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

By now the discourse surrounding Joshua Ryan Butler’s book excerpt published at the Gospel Coalition has in some ways exhausted itself. To be sure, Butler’s intentions for the text — to highlight and commend the beauty of the Christian sex […]

Tim KellerFeaturedCulture WarCurrent Politics

How Should Christians Speak in Public? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Watching David Koch skewer evangelical pastor Guy Mason on Australia’s morning show Sunrise was an excruciating experience.[1] Andrew Thorburn had been dismissed for his association with the City on a Hill church just a couple of days after being appointed […]

Randall FowlerFeaturedEvangelicalismCulture WarCurrent Politics

Rules for Winsomeness - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

At root, the kerfuffle sparked by James Wood’s summer essay(s) on winsomeness revolves around the question of what makes for an effective Christian witness in America’s current sociocultural moment. For many, this question raises additional issues for how Christians should […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedCultureCulture War

Panic - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

My friend Rod Dreher recently argued from his blog that we have hit a point in the trans revolution where a moral panic is appropriate, saying:

Miles SmithFeaturedEvangelicalismCulture WarCurrent Politics

The Uselessness of "Christian Nationalism" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Over the past several years the topic of Christian nationalism has occupied the minds of Evangelical intellectuals and pastors. No less than half a dozen books have been written on the subject in the past year. Three of them have […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedCultureEvangelicalismCulture WarCurrent Politics

Shame - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Shame is, amongst other things, the problem of how to understand yourself and your relationship to neighbor in the aftermath of offending or hurting your neighbor. Given the fragmentation of our society, we shouldn’t be surprised that no one seems […]

Paul D. MillerFeaturedEvangelicalismCulture War

The Role of Social Science in 'Deconstructing' White Evangelicalism | Mere Orthodoxy

My friend Jonathan Leeman has written a thoughtful reflection on what he calls the project of evangelical deconstruction. I want to respond, in part because I expect some readers may view my forthcoming book, The Religion of American Greatness: What’s […]

Vika PecherskyFeaturedCulture War

Dr. Trueman's Hauerwasian Turn - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“My wish is that this book might help Christians rediscover that their most important social task is nothing less than to be a community capable of hearing the story of God we find in the scripture and living in a […]

Matthew Lee AndersonFeaturedCulture WarCurrent Politics

Can Justice Be Saved? | Mere Orthodoxy

Christians can't embrace all aspects of contemporary ideas of social justice. But we must also recognize that what came before was similarly dangerous.

Joseph MinichFeaturedCulture War

The Self-Exposure of Truth: Culture Wars, Projection, and Husbandry

Much culture warring is driven by a misinterpretation of the opposite side's actions in order to validate comfortable narratives about our opposites.