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Mike AustinFeaturedCurrent Politics

Guns and the Shaping of Character | Mere Orthodoxy

One of the questions that seldom comes up in gun debates is the ways in which gun ownership and use can shape character for good and for bad.

John SheltonFeaturedCurrent Politics

Os Guinness: The Christian Public Intellectual After Jacques Maritain - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“Nothing is possible without men, But nothing lasts without institutions.” — Jean Monnet[1] Christians interested in public intellectual engagement often ask: “who is the next C.S. Lewis? Who is the next Reinhold Niebuhr?” While the words and ideas of both […]

Brad EastFeaturedEvangelicalismCurrent Politics

Once More, Church and Culture - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Christendom is the name we give to Christian civilization, when society, culture, law, art, family, politics, and worship are saturated by the church’s influence and informed by its authority. Christendom traces its beginnings to the fourth century after Christ; it […]

Jamie WilderBibleFeaturedCurrent Politics

60 Questions for Pro-Choice Christians - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

For many evangelicals, the leaked draft decision last month felt like the culmination of many prayers, tears, hard conversations, and difficult decisions at the voting polls. Now that Roe has fallen, the most vulnerable will now have a chance to […]

Matthew LoftusFeaturedCurrent Politics

Kichijiro Was Right - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

You’ve probably heard this one before: a masked gunman bursts into church one day and fires a few rounds into the ceiling. “Everyone who believes in Jesus is getting shot today! Everyone who wants to deny Him can leave!” He […]

Jake MeadorCultureCurrent Politics

How to Interview Political Revolutionaries

Interviewing political revolutionaries who believe morally repugnant things is not wrong. Making no mention of those repugnant beliefs is though.

Miles SmithHistoryCurrent Politics

Futility

The Confederacy's attempt to preserve a race-based caste system was futile. So why are sun belt evangelicals trying to revive hateful old ideologies?

Michael LuccheseCurrent Politics

Pioneers Against Postliberalism

The source of our angst and gnawing anxiety is not simply American liberalism, contra Deneen, but a choice to turn our back on ordinary virtue.

Michael LuccheseCurrent Politics

Pioneers Against Postliberalism

The source of our angst and gnawing anxiety is not simply American liberalism, contra Deneen, but a choice to turn our back on ordinary virtue.

Jake MeadorEvangelicalismCurrent Politics

Evangelical Political Life After the Religious Right

The religious right is well and truly dead. So what comes next?

Jake MeadorFamilyCurrent Politics

The Rotten Fruit of Obergefell: On the Kelly Loving Act

The Kelly Loving Act currently being debated in Colorado is the predictable consequence of marriage revisionism.

Randall FowlerCurrent Politics

Three Theories of How to Repair Policy Making and Government

This essay identifies three “options” in Christian policymaking, extending discussions over how to reform government using legitimate political power.