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A Theology of Money - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Among the many sayings of Jesus that have echoed down through the ages, few have continued to sound so loudly or uncomfortably in our ears as his warning, “You cannot serve both God and Mammon.” But this does not keep […]

Matthew ArboEthicsEvangelicalism

The Need for Protestant Ethicists: A Response to Carl Trueman

The problem facing us is not so much a lack of good Protestant ethicists as it is a complete breakdown of trust between Protestant ethicists and the laity.

Joel CariniFamilyEthicsSexuality

Pro-Natalism After the Fall

Children are not pawns in the culture war, but it also is not wrong to have seemingly 'earthly' reasons for wanting to have them.

Derek KingEthics

Rescuing the Abandoned: On Embryo Adoption

Rather than making us complicit in the system, embryo adoption is a modern form of caring for abandoned children, just as the early church did in Rome.

Maria BaerMediaEthics

When We Can’t Remember Why Wrong is Wrong

The New York Times’ 'The Retrievals' podcast is a case study in the futility of moral reasoning by power dynamics.

Jake MeadorTechnologyEthicsChurchFormation

What Can Natural Law Do?

The technological challenges we will soon face are not the sort that can be defeated primarily through reason and argumentation.

Jake MeadorEthicsFormation

What I Saw at the We Who Wrestle with God Tour

Is mercy a vice or a virtue? I think most of us want it to be the latter. But on the logic of Jordan Peterson's intellectual system, it might be a vice.

Elizabeth SticeEthicsHealth and Medicine

Making MAiD Unthinkable

A meaningful response to MAiD has both a legislative and communal aspect as Christians come together to provide space and care for the sick and the poor.

Noah KargerFeaturedEthics

Small and Afraid and Without Knowledge - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

On May 11, 1997, a computer program won a chess match against a world champion for the first time in history. The defeated Garry Kasparov said that after Game 5, “he had become so dispirited that he felt the match […]

Leah Libresco SargeantFeaturedEthics

Too Large for One Life: On Friction and Sustaining Tradition - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

There’s a tremendous gap between making an argument for tradition and inviting someone into a living tradition. In his Compact essay, “Why Conservatism Failed,” Jon Askonas argues that conservatives have retreated prematurely to the world of ideas and abandoned the […]

Patrick MillerFeaturedEthics

Platforms Aren't the Problem - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In How Democracies Die, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt explore how healthy democracies descend into authoritarianism. Counterintuitively, “Democratic backsliding today begins at the ballot box.” A nation elects a demagogic figure who uses executive power to take control of the […]

Matthew LoftusCultureEthicsEconomics

four theses on immigration - Doctors Without Boredom

The only solution to the immigration crisis involves making many places around the world worth staying in.