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Sean Michael LucasFeaturedEvangelicalism

Jesus Plus Masculinity for America's Sake: Replying to "Jesus and John Wayne" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

As I reflected on Calvin University professor Kristin Du Mez’s brilliantly provocative and painful, Jesus and John Wayne, I realized how many different intersections I had with her subject. After all, I serve as a pastor in a Presbyterian denomination […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism

Defining "White Evangelical Crap" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

One of the comments I got in response to Monday’s post was a fairly simple question: “What exactly do you have in mind when you talk about ‘white evangelical crap?'” It’s a fair question. So here’s an attempt at an […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism

After Evangelicalism - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Recently I was talking with a dear friend about how the gift that our particular collegiate experience gave us could be summarized this way: It made it possible for us to disentangle “Christianity” from “stupid American evangelical crap.”

Sahr MbriwaFeaturedEvangelicalismFormation

An Unbelieving Church - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Author and psychiatrist, Curt Thompson, once remarked “we become what we pay attention to.” Reformulated as a question, it becomes arguably the guiding question we need today, namely who are you becoming? In a time of political crisis and social […]

Joel CuthbertsonFeaturedEvangelicalism

Radio Theatre and the Problem of Evangelical Art | Mere Orthodoxy

I. Embed from Getty Images Either you’ve never heard the name John Avery Whittaker, or you recognize it like an old friend’s. In fact, his friends call him Whit. You’ll like him immediately, and the more you learn about his […]

Christine LathamFeaturedEvangelicalism

What the Courtship Movement and Jedi Both Get Wrong | Mere Orthodoxy

Both the courtship movement popularized by Joshua Harris and the Jedi of the Star Wars universe make the same basic error regarding wisdom and the law.

J. Brandon MeeksFeaturedEvangelicalism

We Don't Need Revival - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“We need revival.” ~The Teeming Masses This phrase, ubiquitous among broad evangelicals, has transmogrified from banal cliche to axiomatic mantra. Having been chanted with such frequency that there is virtually no quarter among popular Christianity where it doesn’t reverberate, it […]

Brad EdwardsFeaturedChurchEvangelicalism

The Church of Individualism - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Mark Sayers defines secularism as the pursuit of “the fruits of the Kingdom without the King.” It’s a beautifully succinct summary of a culture with a historical amnesia of it’s once-upon-a-time countercultural Christian foundations built to support the social virtues […]

Anthony BradleyFeaturedEvangelicalism

American Evangelicalism isn't feminized or patriarchal. It's matrilineal.

Matrilineal societies, such as evangelicalism, are cultures in which women are the primary carriers of social memory and keepers of social order.

Brian WilliamsFeaturedEvangelicalism

J. I. Packer: Catechetical Theologian | Mere Orthodoxy

Over a career of 65 years J. I. Packer showed how to be a catechetical theologian—pray, meditate on Scripture, and struggle to remain faithful to the text.

Matthew StokesFeaturedEconomics and BusinessEvangelicalism

Against Evangelical Minimalism | Mere Orthodoxy

Many calls to evangelical minimalism implicitly rely upon a relationship to material goods that is hostile to good work and reliant upon global capitalism.

Christopher HuttonFeaturedEvangelicalism

How Then Shall We Converse? | Mere Orthodoxy

Seeking to understand through conversation is a great good. But that doesn't mean every idea deserves to be presented in the same forum.