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Hephzibah House: A Beacon of Hospitality in New York City - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

And thou shalt be called Hephzibah… For the Lord delighteth in thee. —Isaiah 62:4 It’s no secret that New York City can feel cold, confusing, and unwelcoming to newcomers. And that was true even before two years of COVID shutdowns […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalismFormation

Evangelization After the Secular Sabbath - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

For Christians of a certain age, I expect a certain kind of Christian testimony will sound familiar: You grow up in a home with both of your biological parents (who are married), you grow up in and around the church, […]

T. Wyatt ReynoldsFeaturedEvangelicalism

Historians Behaving Badly - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In certain regions of the Western Christian world, the opinion prevails that historians have been behaving badly of late. This opinion, in fact, extends to academics at large. From this point of view, historians are attempting to distract the faithful […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedChurchEvangelicalism

Winsomeness, Evangelism, and Pastoral Theology - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

It is an odd thing to see a pastor from New York City presented as the spokesman for a movement supposedly defined by its concern with “winsomeness.” Though I do not know the city that well, my few trips to it have […]

Elizabeth SticeFeaturedEvangelicalism

Fear and Deconstruction - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s inaugural speech, he told the American people that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” The country was enduring a major economic crisis and would soon face the threat of fascism encircling the […]

David MooreFeaturedEvangelicalism

Thinking Christian: Essays on Testimony, Accountability, and the Christian Mind - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

James Spencer crossed my radar in a rather unlikely way. My friend, Allison, told me about the Moody Center which I proceeded to check out. Spencer, a former academic dean at Moody Bible Institute, is now the president of the […]

Bill MeloneFeaturedEvangelicalism

A Second Fundamentalism and the Butterfly of American Christianity - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We live in a time of division, as many of us can wearily testify, but we also live in a time of disorientation. Navigating divisions can be challenging, but the challenge multiplies when we are disoriented, and that is a […]

David MooreFeaturedEvangelicalism

C. S. Lewis on Evangelism and Beauty with Randy Newman - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Randy Newman is Senior Fellow for Evangelism and Apologetics at the C.S. Lewis Institute in the Washington D.C. area. Randy is the author of several books including Mere Evangelism which is the basis of the following interview. Mere Evangelism: 10 […]

Jared MichelsonFeaturedChurchEvangelicalismFormation

Power, the Trinity, and Abuse: Notes on the Rise and Fall of Mars Hill - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Predictably, the lessons drawn from Christianity Today’s “The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill” vary according to the biases of the listener. Some of those ‘deconstructing’ see the Mars Hill saga as increasing conformation of the wholesale bankruptcy of evangelical […]

Dustin MesserFeaturedChurchEvangelicalism

Why We All Need Baptists to be Baptist - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The liturgy started sleepily this fourth Sunday in Advent, people trickling in later than usual. A traffic jam made traveling downtown to our Anglican parish especially difficult. It turned out the standstill was caused by the Secret Service. As we, […]

Paul D. MillerFeaturedEvangelicalismCulture War

The Role of Social Science in 'Deconstructing' White Evangelicalism | Mere Orthodoxy

My friend Jonathan Leeman has written a thoughtful reflection on what he calls the project of evangelical deconstruction. I want to respond, in part because I expect some readers may view my forthcoming book, The Religion of American Greatness: What’s […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism

Ecclesial Realignment After the Culture Wars - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Last summer, the recently retired minister Ray Ortlund announced that he had been appointed a canon theologian, a teaching office in the Anglican Church of North America (ACNA). That a recently retired minister who held a PhD and had taught […]