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The Benedict Option and the Pace of Middle-Class Life

One of the greatest challenges facing the Benedict Option is simply creating time to pursue the sorts of works necessary for its growth and maturation.

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Race and the Benedict Option | Mere Orthodoxy

Drawing issues of race into our discussions of the Benedict Option will better help us understand the nature of the conflict between Orthodoxy and America.

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Class and the Benedict Option | Mere Orthodoxy

Standing behind many of the concrete proposals about the Benedict Option is the reality that most of these proposals are inaccessible to any save the rich.

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Protestantism and the Benedict Option - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The following is less a long-form essay and more a series of semi-connected thoughts concerning the Benedict Option and American Protestantism. I’ve broken them down with headers in hopes of making it easier for readers to pick out which parts […]

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Why Toleration is Not Enough - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Bryan McGraw is Associate Professor of Politics at Wheaton College and lover of all things smoked BBQ. Two groups lately have found themselves on the defensive politically and socially, and seem deeply befuddled as to why—and why it seems to […]

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Home, Retreat, and the Benedict Option

If the Benedict Option is to succeed, then we cannot understand it as the creation of retreats. We must instead see it as being about the creation of homes.

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Evangelicals and the Search for Credibility - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

There's a certain type of evangelical who thinks our movement's biggest problem is a lack of credibility with non-Christians. Unfortunately, they are wrong.

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A Brief Thought on the Benedict Option | Mere Orthodoxy

The Benedict Option may be less about articulating a new response to new challenges and more about returning to classic Christian orthodoxy.

Matthew Lee AndersonCulture War

The Limits of Dialogue: Q Ideas, Gay Marriage, and Chuck Colson

Q Ideas is inviting proponents of gay marriage to their conference. Should they? And would Chuck Colson approve?

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Hope, Failures, and Young Evangelicals: On What I Said and Didn't

What does hope have to do with progressive Christianity and the religious liberty challenges that are currently upon us?

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The Politics of the Christmas Truce | Mere Orthodoxy

For one day in 1914 thousands of soldiers laid down their guns and stopped trying to kill each other. It was the Christmas Truce. But it lasted only a day.

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Naive Young Evangelicals and the Illiberal DNA of the Gay Rights Movement - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The gay rights movement is illiberal and young evangelicals are naive about where it could end.