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Zack HolbrookPoliticsFeaturedCulture War

The World We Have and the World We Want | Mere Orthodoxy

A properly Christian political witness consists as much in the manner of our action as it does in the content of our ideas.

Jake MeadorFeaturedCulture War

The Lord's Work in the Lord's Way: Against the Culture War - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

One of the saddest consequences of the culture war is that it has managed to make people boring. The culture war has made us predictable, even if individual people are anything but. The libertarian online troll is in real life […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedCulture War

Liberalism and Personal Formation | Mere Orthodoxy

So far the conservative response to the radtrads has ignored the most important point of the debate: Liberalism is very bad at producing liberals.

Matthew Lee AndersonFeaturedEvangelicalismCulture War

Evangelicalism's Flight 93 Moment: Reflections on the Nashville Statement

The larger problem with the Nashville Statement may well be the disregard its signers have for their conservative, thoroughly orthodox critics.

Joseph MinichFeaturedEducationCulture War

A Case Against Binding Consciences in the School Debates

Christians should not issue blanket statements condemning all public schools. The reality is much more complex and such declarations are not helpful.

Jake MeadorFeaturedCultureCulture War

Is it really that bad? Christianity, Secularism, and Apocalypse

"How to Survive the Apocalypse" is a great case for Christian faithful presence in a secular, pluralistic culture. But it is still a flawed, naive argument.

Matthew Lee AndersonFeaturedCulture WarCurrent Politics

The Religious Right Is Not a Subsidiary of the Alt-Right | Mere Orthodoxy

The history of the religious right significantly complicates the thesis put forward by Sarah Posner that sees the religious right as part of the alt-right.

Matthew LoftusFeaturedChurchCulture War

A Social Justice Warrior in King Roderick's Court | Mere Orthodoxy

The Social Justice Warriors need the Benedict Option as much as the Benedict Option needs the Social Justice Warriors.

Jake MeadorFeaturedHistoryCulture War

The New Alarmism Is Not New and Is Not Alarmism | Mere Orthodoxy

The problems that Rod Dreher, Archbishop Chaput, Drs. R. R. Reno and Anthony Esolen raise in their books aren't new and their concerns are quite reasonable.

Susannah Black RobertsCulture War

Dr Moore and the Politics of Dinner Parties | Mere Orthodoxy

Responding to the deserved demise of the religious right, Russell Moore may have tacitly embraced a political quietism that eats away at public virtue.

Jake MeadorCulture WarCurrent Politics

More on Sex After Christianity - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

An embrace of same-sex marriage necessarily commits one to a broader set of beliefs and principles that are incompatible with classical Christianity.

Jake MeadorCulture WarCurrent Politics

On David Gushee's Dishonesty

David Gushee's latest piece is further proof that progressive evangelicals are either awful thinkers or have been acting in bad faith all along.