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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 […]

Ian MosleyFamilyFeaturedCultureEconomics and Business

The Masculinity Crisis is an Economic Crisis - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill has led to much reflection on the state of the modern evangelical soul. One thing that stood out from the podcast is that Driscoll and many like him have capitalized on the perception […]

Miles SmithPoliticsFeaturedHistory

The Danger of Forgetting America's Anti-Racist History - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Jake Meador has offered a thoughtful and challenging piece concerning the relationship between Christianity and the United States. Meador’s most salient point is that he has “become very suspicious of accounts of Christianity’s place in American life that leave out […]

Joshua JensenBibleFeatured

Aardvarks and Alphabets - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Just 35 miles from my home in northeast Cambodia, there lives an indigenous minority called the Kachok. There are about four thousand Kachok in nine different villages. While they are ethnically related to other tribes in our region, as well […]

Rachel Roth AldhizerFeaturedHealth and Medicine

The Blind Get the Last Laugh - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“Did you play with other kids at the park today?” I ask my kids over lunch. “Yeah, we made a friend,” my son says, while my daughter chirps, “with a baby!” She is barely bigger than a baby herself. “But,” […]

Justin LonasFeatured

Resting in Finitude - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Kelly Kapic. You’re Only Human: How Your Limits Reflect God’s Design and Why That’s Good News. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2022. 272 pp, $24.99. After another too-short-but oh-so-long day of unfinished projects, unfulfilled promises to my kids, overdue assignments, and too-fast […]

Jake MeadorFeatured

Growing the Merry Band - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

A short update on where things stand at Mere O HQ (AKA my home study): I’ve been doing Mere Orthodoxy full-time since January. God willing and if the magazine’s finances allow it, this is what I will be doing FT for the […]

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 […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedCulture

The Self is a Problem - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the “wisdom” of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedCulture

The Three Ages of Christian American Exceptionalism - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In 1789, Otobo Cugoano, a freed slave and a Christian, wrote in his Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evils of Slavery against those who claimed that the manstealing and enslavement of Africans was justified by the fact that some of […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedEducation

In Memoriam: Michael Baker: Teacher of Persons - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I suspect that my old high school teacher Michael Baker would have rather mixed feelings about having an obituary published in a magazine called Mere Orthodoxy. Certainly, he was the kind of teacher that would have scared many white evangelical parents, […]

Addison Del MastroFeaturedJournalJournal 2

Finding Belonging in the City - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Chad Bryant. Prague: Belonging in the Modern City. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021. 352pp, $29.95. Historian Chad Bryant has produced a moving and deeply informative book in Prague: Belonging in the Modern City. The book’s structure, consisting chiefly of five […]