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Cameron ShafferFeaturedCurrent Politics

All Monuments Must Fall | Mere Orthodoxy

Contemporary iconoclasts would do well to learn from older generations of iconoclasts who recognized that no publicly revered figure is truly righteous.

Casey ChalkFeaturedCurrent Politics

Who's Your Authority?: Notes on Ideology and Enemies - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I don’t think it would be fair to blame my father for his distrust of authority. Growing up in 1960s Jim Crow Alabama, in a hardscrabble, blue-collar family that aspired for white-collar status, he didn’t have particularly good influences. He […]

Matthew Lee AndersonFeaturedCurrent Politics

Can Justice Be Saved? Part Three: On Hope - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In the previous two essays of this triptych, I have attempted to sketch how the Gospel of Jesus Christ might shape our understanding of justice in order to clarify what our responsibilities as Christians might be in our own time. […]

Matthew Lee AndersonFeaturedCurrent Politics

Can Charity Save Justice | Mere Orthodoxy

It was an ordinary Sunday afternoon in the Anderson household a few years back, full of books and tea and other comforts. My wife had momentarily interrupted my reading by giving me a kiss, seemingly without cause. It captured just […]

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.

Emily BrighamFeaturedCurrent Politics

The Insignificance of Voting - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“. . . [F]or the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived […]

Kaitlyn SchiessFeaturedCurrent Politics

For the Life of the World: Spiritual Formation and Public Life

An excerpt from Kaitlyn Schiess's forthcoming "Liturgy of Politics," coming out on September 8, 2020 from InterVarsity Press.

Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

Conservatism, Out of Decadence | Mere Orthodoxy

What we need is a political vision to lead America out of immanence and back to transcendence. Two midwestern senators have rival visions of how to do that.

Daniel DeCarloFeaturedCurrent Politics

The Strange Death of the Populist Dream and Victory of Woke Integralism

Human beings are inextricably religious creatures desiring transcendent purpose. Populism ignores this fact. Woke integralism does not.

Onsi A. KamelFeaturedCurrent Politics

Making Sense of Kanye 2020 - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“The system broken, the school is closed, the prison’s open… In this white man world, we the ones chosen.” “Is hip-hop just a euphemism for a new religion? The soul music of the slaves that the youth is missing? But […]

David AlexanderFeaturedCurrent Politics

Pastors, Priests, and Police: Understanding the Third Commandment

Abuse by police officers or pastors is uniquely evil because it abuses and discredits an office of high importance for the health of society.

Matthew Dal SantoFeaturedCurrent Politics

Is the Queen Post-Liberal? | Mere Orthodoxy

A return to “port” – to a healthy commonwealth, directed towards its proper ends – must also include a post-liberal vision for public political authority.