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Jessica JoustraFeaturedChurchCurrent Politics

Modern, Yet Faithful: Lessons from Herman Bavinck - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Herman Bavinck was the son of a conservative Reformed preacher, born in 1854 in a relatively small town (Hoogeveen) in a small, low-lands country (the Netherlands).

Jake MeadorFeaturedCulture WarCurrent Politics

The PR Style in Christian Media - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

By now the discourse surrounding Joshua Ryan Butler’s book excerpt published at the Gospel Coalition has in some ways exhausted itself. To be sure, Butler’s intentions for the text — to highlight and commend the beauty of the Christian sex […]

David MooreFeaturedHistoryCurrent Politics

In Conversation with Os Guinness - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

This marks a veritable baker’s dozen of Guinness books I’ve read. None of the thirteen have been duds, though I certainly have my favorites. Guinness has authored about thirty-five books along with being the lead drafter for the Williamsburg Charter […]

Brian MesimerFeaturedCultureCurrent Politicshealth

Why Are Young Conservatives Less Depressed? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In a recent essay, Matt Yglesias attempted to explain the curious but well-documented phenomenon of why younger progressive minded teens are consistently more depressed than their conservative counterparts.

Todd StathamFeaturedCurrent Politicshealth

A Time to Die: Reflections on Medically-Assisted Dying in Canada - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

There is “a time to die” says Scripture (Ecclesiastes 3:2). When is that time? And who decides? I live in Canada, where these questions now seem to have clear answers: you may decide when to die, and whatever you decide […]

Adam CarringtonFeaturedCurrent Politics

A Prayer for the 118th Congress - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

A Prayer for the 118th Congress Americans, at least those paying attention, have reacted in diverse ways to the spectacle which unfolded last week in the United States House of Representatives. Some have shown rage. Others have expressed confusion. Some […]

Simon KennedyFeaturedCultureHistoryCurrent Politics

Three Worlds and Two Christianities - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

At a recent book launch in Melbourne, one of Australia’s leading Christian scholars, Sarah Irving-Stonebraker, astutely observed that Richard Niebuhr’s models of Christ and culture, a framework which has wielded great influence for decades, is now outdated. Irving-Stonebraker further stated […]

Jonathan TomesFeaturedCurrent Politics

Matthew 18 and the Public Square - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We’ve heard this story dozens of times this year, the year before that one, going on for what feels like a generation: a schoolteacher is in the public discourse for apparently radicalizing students behind the backs of parents. Blast the […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

Tolkien Was Right: Notes on the Respect for Marriage Act and the Post-Boomer Church - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Some time after his death, an editor was going through the papers and books in J. R. R. Tolkien’s library when he came across an old copy of C. S. Lewis’s pamphlet “Christian Behavior,” which would later be re-published as […]

Ian OlsonFeaturedCurrent Politics

The Withering of Persuasion - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

What are any of us doing when we take up our avatars and handles to enter into fights on Facebook and Twitter? When we post links and frame them with incendiary remarks as though sharing the link was itself a […]

Matthew LoftusFeaturedEvangelicalismCurrent Politics

Rich Christians in an Age of Competing Obligations - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Christianity is a religion of seemingly impossible paradoxes, and the Christian life is a series of decisions made within a set of difficult, often excruciating tensions. The simplest paradoxes are the purely theological ones: Jesus is fully God and man; […]

Tim KellerFeaturedCulture WarCurrent Politics

How Should Christians Speak in Public? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Watching David Koch skewer evangelical pastor Guy Mason on Australia’s morning show Sunrise was an excruciating experience.[1] Andrew Thorburn had been dismissed for his association with the City on a Hill church just a couple of days after being appointed […]