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Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsCulture War

Recovering our Confidence: Four Theses on Social Conservatism (#4) - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Social Conservatism talks a loud game but actually has little confidence. Social conservatives should try to recover it strategically.

Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsCulture War

Recover Intellectual Creativity: Four Theses on Social Conservatism (#3) - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Social conservatism needs to recover its intellectual creativity by being willing to question its own first principles.

Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsCulture War

End the Hostilities Against Elites: Four Theses on Social Conservatism (#2) - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Social conservatives tend to be hostile toward elites. That needs to end if the movement is going to thrive.

Guest WriterEvangelicalismCulture WarCurrent Politics

Idylls of the Right: Donald Trump and the Religious Right

Donald Trump's triumph over the religious right has an Arthurian feel to it, as Trump slays the movement that, through its own failure, helped birth him.

Matthew LoftusCulture War

Responding to Alan Jacobs on the Benedict Option

Matthew Loftus responds to the most recent contribution to the BenOp conversation from Bayler professor Alan Jacobs.

Samuel JamesEvangelicalismCulture WarCurrent Politics

The Culture War Is Interested in You - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Last summer, David Brooks wrote that the social conflicts “oriented around the Sexual revolution” were over. Legal same-sex marriage and the declining influence of traditional Christianity had combined, he wrote, to put the goals of the culture wars of the last few decades out […]

Jake MeadorEvangelicalismCulture WarCurrent Politics

Evangelicalism After Trump: The religious left isn't coming.

Ruth Graham's latest in Slate is both useful and interesting, but misunderstands the current political mood amongst evangelicals.

Jake MeadorEthicsEconomics and BusinessCulture War

Boycotts and the End of Neighborliness

The growing popularity of boycotts suggests a dark future for neighborliness in the United States.

Matthew Lee AndersonCulture WarCurrent Politics

Against Trump: Why Evangelicals Must Not Support the Donald

We shouldn't have to make the case, but this is why evangelicals shouldn't even dream of supporting Donald Trump for president.

Jake MeadorCulture War

Neo-Anabaptists and the Benedict Option | Mere Orthodoxy

There is a Hauerwasian component to Rod Dreher's Benedict Option which needs to be discussed further before we can truly evaluate the merits of the BenOp.

Matthew LoftusCulture War

The Blinkered Benedict Option | Mere Orthodoxy

The Benedict Option is addressing real problems facing the western church but sometimes seems to be cut off from the experience of the global church.

Jake MeadorCulture War

Benedict, Patrick, Jeremiah, and Other Nouns as Well

Critics of the Benedict Option say that now is a time for deeper cultural engagement rather than retreat. But this is a mistaken criticism of the BenOp.