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Miles SmithFeaturedHistoryCurrent Politics

A Puritan Founding? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Earlier this year Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry published The Flag + the Cross, a sociological expose on what they identified as the threat to American democracy from what they called white Christian nationalism. It’s a work of sociology more […]

John CarpenterFeatured

Objects of Doubt - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Three months to live. That was what my father heard when he went into the Mayo clinic for treatment for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in the Spring of 1986. That proved accurate. My father made his living on the business-side of health […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedCultureCulture War

Panic - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

My friend Rod Dreher recently argued from his blog that we have hit a point in the trans revolution where a moral panic is appropriate, saying:

Jake MeadorFamilyFeaturedFormation

Threnody for a Good Man - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Mat Feltner died at a hospital in Lincoln this week. Obviously it wasn’t Feltner himself — he lives nowhere outside of the mind of Wendell Berry, the pages of his novels, and the imaginations of the many thousands of us […]

KJ DrakeFeaturedChurch

Schmemann’s Vision of a Sacramental World and the Reformed Tradition - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Alexander Schmemann is a window into a theological world much different than typically encountered in American evangelical circles. With a faith firmly grounded in the Russian Orthodox theological tradition and speaking determinedly into late-modern Western life, Schmemann has intrigued many […]

Michael McKoyFeaturedCurrent Politics

Unpacking "Realism" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

There is a fascinating ambivalence regarding the term “realism.” On the one hand, many claim to be realists since the alternative would be to be, well, unrealistic. Political realism built its modern brand during the interwar period as the sensible […]

Katy CarlFeatured

The Danger of Enchanted Enclosures - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The Substance of Things Hoped For: A Novel by Tom Noyes, Slant Books, an imprint of Wipf & Stock, Eugene, Oregon: April 26, 2021, 270 pp., $25 Experiences of committed Christian community can transform lives for the better. Robust, mature, […]

Jake MeadorFeatured

Saturday Night Lights - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

This piece was originally published in 2015 with Fare Forward. I’m republishing it here ahead of Saturday’s kick off and because it is no longer online elsewhere. Any Nebraskan can describe the scene to you: It’s a fall Saturday in Lincoln, […]

David KoyzisPoliticsFeatured

Tradition as a Way of Life: Yoram Hazony's Winsome Defense - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Professed conservatives have long been at a disadvantage relative to their liberal and social democratic opponents and seem continually to lose ground to these ideologies claiming the progressive label. This is because the principles of liberalism and socialism are straightforward […]

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 […]

Bill MeloneFeatured

An Interview with Isaac Adams on "Talking About Race" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Isaac Adams serves as lead pastor at Iron City Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and is the founder of United? We Pray, a ministry devoted to praying about racial justice. The following transcripted interview revolves around his book, Talking About Race: […]