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Book Interview: The Thrill of Orthodoxy: Rediscovering the Adventure of Christian Faith by Trevin Wax - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Trevin Wax is vice president of research and resource development at the North American Mission Board. He is also a visiting professor at Cedarville University. The following interview revolves around his recently released book, The Thrill of Orthodoxy. The Thrill […]

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 […]

Musembi wa NdaitaFeatured

How (Not) to Watch the Beautiful Game - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Growing up Monday mornings were either a delight or a dread depending on which football — what a minority of the world calls soccer — team you supported. If your team had lost over the weekend, you were in for […]

John CarpenterBibleFeatured

Esther and the Theology of Thanksgiving - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Thanksgiving is our most Christian holiday. Just ask the Puritans. They did not give us Thanksgiving as an annual holiday after a great feast to celebrate a year of survival in America and then say, “This was fun, let’s do […]

Matthew LoftusFeaturedEvangelicalismCurrent Politics

Rich Christians in an Age of Competing Obligations - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Christianity is a religion of seemingly impossible paradoxes, and the Christian life is a series of decisions made within a set of difficult, often excruciating tensions. The simplest paradoxes are the purely theological ones: Jesus is fully God and man; […]

Kirsten SandersFeaturedChurchEvangelicalismFormation

Kites - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I taught my sons to fly a kite the other day. It was a beautiful Sunday morning and the wind was just right for it. They are old enough to know how a kite should fly but not old enough […]

Kirsten SandersFeaturedChurchEvangelicalismFormation

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 […]

Colin RedemerFeaturedEconomics and Business

The Act of Love That Preserves All Other Acts of Love - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We are told that shortly a great many jobs will cross the event horizon of the techno-singularity, and thus will, like a ship passing over the actual horizon, disappear — probably forever. Mostly we think about the jobs of burger […]

Tim KellerFeaturedCulture WarCurrent Politics

How Should Christians Speak in Public? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Watching David Koch skewer evangelical pastor Guy Mason on Australia’s morning show Sunrise was an excruciating experience.[1] Andrew Thorburn had been dismissed for his association with the City on a Hill church just a couple of days after being appointed […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedCulture

The Right Instructions - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In his piece on the Thorburn affair in Australia, Simon Kennedy offered an important and, to my knowledge, mostly new contribution to the entire negative world discourse. Though he mentioned the idea of “winsomeness” being the problem, he also proposed […]

Bob StevensonFeaturedCurrent Politics

The Case for Voting Third Party - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

These days, it’s hard to be a Christian who cares about politics—and public ethics, character, and the mission of God. On the one hand, our political system is a mess, with platforms pushing toward the extremes, and constituencies nursing rising […]

Kirsten SandersFeatured

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

Jon Askonas’ Compact piece does not bury the lede. Conservatism has failed, in his view, and it has failed because it mistook the problem at hand. It mistook the seismic shift of technology for a simple lack. Askonas writes that […]