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Can I Get a Witness?: A Response to Tim Keller - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In his recent essay, Tim Keller has entered his bit in a persistent dialogue regarding how Christians should speak in public. The players in this dialogue, including James Wood, Aaron Renn, and Simon Kennedy, are working to sort out how […]

Cameron ShafferFeaturedChurchEvangelicalismFormation

Our Spiritual Malaise - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“There are some people [that] tell us that they are tremendously interested in the gospel as a point of view, as a Christian philosophy…Christianity is to them a matter of tremendous interest and they believe and proclaim that if only […]

Randall FowlerFeaturedEvangelicalismCulture WarCurrent Politics

Rules for Winsomeness - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

At root, the kerfuffle sparked by James Wood’s summer essay(s) on winsomeness revolves around the question of what makes for an effective Christian witness in America’s current sociocultural moment. For many, this question raises additional issues for how Christians should […]

Simon StokesFeaturedChurchEvangelicalism

A Ride Worth Leaving: Escaping the Anxiety of the Modern Church - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. —Ecclesiastes 1:9 Imagine a windmill with its blade turning in the breeze. The blade of […]

Patrick MillerFeaturedEvangelicalismFormation

Speech Without Accountability: Reckoning with Anonymous Christian Trolls - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Our church invited Aimee Byrd to speak on Sunday morning several weeks ago. It wasn’t the first time. It won’t be the last time. While we only ordain men, we also allow non-ordained individuals to teach our congregation periodically—including women. […]

Josh FenskaFeaturedEvangelicalism

What Augustine Might Say to Someone Deconstructing - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In my early twenties, I dove deep into questions and doubts about the Christian faith. After hundreds of Sundays, countless youth programs, and a few years at a Christian college, I began dismantling many things I had always assumed. Today […]

Gillis HarpFeaturedEconomics and BusinessEvangelicalism

What Two Gilded Age Christian Socialists Would Say to Evangelicals Today - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The rehabilitation of socialism’s reputation among Millennials and Gen Z has grabbed the attention of political analysts in recent years: “Socialism as Popular as Capitalism Among Young Adults in U.S.” (Gallup). “Majority of Gen Z Americans Hold Negative Views of […]

Matthew WileyFeaturedEvangelicalismhealthFormation

Seminary Anxiety - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Everyone here bites their nails. I first noticed this last Fall and the realization was at once troubling and consoling. Troubling, because this is a child’s bad habit; consoling, because at least I’m not the only one who hasn’t used […]

Vika PecherskyFeaturedEvangelicalism

Karl Barth's Warning for Evangelical Theology - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“What is culture in itself except the attempt of man to be man and thus to hold the good gift of his humanity in honor and to put it to work?” —Karl Barth In 1957, Karl Barth delivered his lecture […]

Miles SmithFeaturedEvangelicalismCulture WarCurrent Politics

The Uselessness of "Christian Nationalism" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Over the past several years the topic of Christian nationalism has occupied the minds of Evangelical intellectuals and pastors. No less than half a dozen books have been written on the subject in the past year. Three of them have […]

Skyler Flowers and Michael GrahamFeaturedChurchEvangelicalism

One Year Later: Reflecting on Evangelicalism's Six-Way Fracturing - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Skyler Flowers also contributed to this essay. Reflections on the Six Way Fracturing of Evangelicalism a Year Later Critical Race Theory. Afghanistan. Verdicts in Floyd and Arbery cases. Kyle Rittenhouse. Vaccine Mandates. Russia invades Ukraine. Roe v. Wade overturned. Uvalde […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedCultureEvangelicalismCulture WarCurrent Politics

Shame - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Shame is, amongst other things, the problem of how to understand yourself and your relationship to neighbor in the aftermath of offending or hurting your neighbor. Given the fragmentation of our society, we shouldn’t be surprised that no one seems […]