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The Culture War Comes Home - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The culture war arrived in my hometown a few weeks ago with the approval of a new fairness ordinance by the Lincoln City Council. The ordinance is designed to provide protections against harassment and discrimination for LGBT+ people in Lincoln. […]

J. Chase DavisFeaturedCultureCurrent Politics

Borderless - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

There is great concern in the church today about individualism. From Carl Trueman’s work on expressive individualism to other works revealing its deficiencies and threats to Christian spirituality, ours is believed to be an age of individualism. These critiques are […]

Ben ChristensonFeaturedCurrent Politics

Masks, Mercy, and Measure for Measure - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Masks have made the slippery concept of “virtue-signaling” oddly literal. The virtues of care and the safety of others or freedom and individual liberty now can be visibly signaled simply by wearing or abstaining from a mask. Mundane tasks like […]

Emily WenneborgFeaturedCurrent Politics

Visions of Exile: Christian Communitarianism, Christian Secularism, and Faithful Presence - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

How can Christians live faithfully in an ever-changing and increasingly pluralistic world? How can we maintain that faithfulness, both over the course of our own lives and from generation to generation? What sort of formation do we and our children […]

Aryana Petrosky Roberts and Mark SawyerFeaturedCurrent Politics

The Virtues We Need to Repair Trust - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

As residents of Washington, D.C., we had a front row seat to the events of January 6, 2021 as they unfolded in our neighborhood streets. Glued to our couches and phone screens, we heard the sirens blare down streets to […]

Heather PetersonFeaturedEducationCurrent Politics

Moral Values and the Intercultural Development Inventory - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In a previous article, I wrote about my concern with Christian organizations employing the Intercultural Development Inventory for two reasons, the undermining of the image of God and the undermining of objective moral values.

Samuel Bray and Nathan ChapmanFeaturedCurrent Politics

An Evaluation of Religious Exemptions from COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many deaths and much suffering. It has also created a number of acute challenges for churches, one of which is how to think about religious exemptions to vaccine requirements. These requirements are sometimes imposed by […]

Joshua HeavinFamilyFeaturedCurrent Politics

The Cost of Nurture - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Christians and even some non-Christian philosophers regularly strive to ‘remember death,’ but few of us seem willing to remember our birth. Only a few paragraphs into Augustine’s Confessions, he recalls the grace of God given to him by his own […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

The End of the Liberalism Debate - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We now seem to be at the end of a debate that has roiled the American Right for the past several years, or so says Sohrab Ahmari, one of the chief figures in that debate. But before we get to […]

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Public Health After Christendom - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

How are we to consider public health when the health of the public officials themselves would not be recognizable to prior generations? Are we to simply stick our heads in the sand pretending that everything is normal? The CDC has […]

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The Prophet of Re-Alignment: Reading Michael Lind in the Ruins of the Old Republic - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

It has become a tired cliché to lament the polarization of American politics, yet after a year that witnessed a post-election assault on the US Capitol, and in which even epidemiology became a partisan issue, few would contest the truth […]

J. Chase DavisFeaturedCurrent Politics

Why (Not) Masking Matters: A Dissent - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Without qualification, masking has been one of the most contentious issues for church leaders to face over the last two years. For some, it is a matter of health and preserving life. For others, it is a matter of liberty […]