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Be Fearful as Christ was Fearful | Mere Orthodoxy

Christ condescends to our fears. We need not hesitate to join him in the Garden where death’s shadow lies. For if we kneel with him, he will raise us up.

Bonnie McKernanFeaturedCurrent Politics

Covenants and the Common Good | Mere Orthodoxy

A return to the centrality of covenants in common life would help the church to develop a strong, genuinely distinctive witness in a fragmenting nation.

Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

7 Notes on Bostock v Clayton County & the Future of Social Conservatism

We should not overstate the risk to Christian conservatives following the Bostock ruling, but neither should we act as if all is well in our movement.

Brad LittlejohnPolitical TheoryCurrent Politics

A Government of Force or a Government of Laws?

If America is to be a nation of laws, we will need to rediscover sources of political order that aren't purely dependent upon coercive force.

William E. BoyceFeaturedCurrent PoliticsHealth and Medicine

The Cross Amidst a Plague: Choosing Cruciformity Over Self-Interest

Love of neighbor is central to the Christian life and Christian piety. Often, especially during times of plague, this love will cost us a great deal.

Joseph LaughonFeaturedCurrent Politics

Reviewing National Conservatism's Policy Agenda | Mere Orthodoxy

Oren Cass's "Once and Future Worker" is the most substantive policy vision offered by national conservatives so far and offers a striking, original vision.

Matthew Lee AndersonFeaturedCurrent Politics

The Politics of Mask-Wearing | Mere Orthodoxy

To compare mask-wearing to duck-and-cover drills is to compare nuclear threats and a pandemic. But these are two dramatically different things.

Sebastian MilbankFeaturedCurrent Politics

The Populists and the Pandemic - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Recently the world commemorated VE day, celebrating the vast global effort to defeat fascism, an inhuman ideology which sacrificed life on the altar of materialism. The Queen gave a speech to her quarantined subjects: declaring that ‘our streets are not […]

Paul D. MillerFeaturedCurrent Politics

Manliness, Courage, Performance | Mere Orthodoxy

Needlessly endangering yourself and others in the name of masculinity is not courageous or virtuous. It is an empty, dangerous performance.

Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

Thinking Christianly About the Ahmaud Arbery Lynching - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Let’s start here. This is what we know about what happened in February in Brunswick GA when Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed according to the New York Times: BRUNSWICK, Ga. — Ahmaud Arbery loved to run. It was how […]

Malcolm FoleyFeaturedCurrent Politics

Lynching Then and Lynching Now: Racial Justice as Christian Imperative

The killing of Ahmaud Arbery is tragically not an anomaly in American history: It is, rather, another tragic chapter in our nation's long story of lynching.

Daniel DeCarloFeaturedCurrent Politics

To Help Persecuted Christians the U.S. Needs to Freeze the Buhari Regime's Stolen Funds - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The US is considering returning $300m in stolen funds to Nigeria's Buhari regime despite the government's rampant corruption and persecution of Christians.