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Good Friday - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Every year on Good Friday as a rule we go dark with regards to publishing new essays or reviews. Instead, we share a few songs to help people mark Good Friday. I pray that today will be a somber one […]

Zach HollifieldFeatured

A Surprisingly Therapeutic Reading of Cormac McCarthy - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

A global pandemic claiming millions of lives. An invasion of the largest European nation besides the one invading it resulting in the deaths of hundreds and hundreds of civilians including children. The countless “micro” and mundane atrocities we ourselves experience […]

Grace HumblesFamilyFeatured

"Unpaid Gestation" and the Abolition of the Family - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Every day, 385,000 newborn babies enter the world. A fledgling group of theorists and writers is interested in reimagining how we think about these births and the children they produce. Using the provocative tagline “Abolish the Family,” this group of […]

Myles WerntzFeatured

How "Isolation" Helps Us Understand Sin - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Loneliness and even estrangement we are familiar with, but isolation? Is this too strong a term to describe the ways in which sin afflicts our common life? The skepticism of this nomenclature, I think, is twofold. First, it may come […]

Cort GatliffFeatured

Death and New Life on Holy Saturday - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In the center of the photograph, an injured young woman lies on a stretcher. Her face is dusted in ash. Her left hand cradles her pregnant stomach. Men armed with rifles and wearing bulletproof vests carry her through the smoldering […]

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A Theology of Infertility - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

After years of secondary infertility, my wife and I discovered she was pregnant on Father’s Day of 2016. It was a stunning moment for us, a seemingly miraculous answer to prayers that we had mostly given up on. But three […]

Joshua FarrisFeatured

In Defense of the Gender Binary - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We are now seeing seismic shifts in perception about sex, gender, and marriage. You might think this has been occurring for some time now, and you wouldn’t be wrong about that. But, granting that as truth, the shift seems especially […]

Josiah PetersonFeatured

Book Review: Seasoned Speech: Rhetoric in the Life of the Church by James Beitler - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

James Beitler III, Seasoned Speech: Rhetoric in the Life of the Church, Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press Academic, 2019, 243 pp., $25.00 pb. Christians can be forgiven when they cringe upon hearing the word “rhetoric.” Rhetoric is all too easily […]

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An Orthodox Theory of Brainworms - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Commentators have been calling political extremism a form of religion for a long time. Discussions of the United States’s current political hysteria often describe it as similar to Western Christianity, whether Catholic or Protestant, or through Western heuristics. It is […]

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Biblical or Institutional?: On Navigating Hard Church Decisions - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“It’s 2022, the Bible says nothing about (Insert church action) how on earth are they still (Doing/not doing) that!” If you have spent any amount of time in a local church, you have likely heard this or some similar sentiment […]

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Christians in the Gray Zone: The Strong Gods are Back - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In his 1978 commencement address at Harvard University, the great Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn argued that what united the capitalist west and communist east mattered more than what divided them. Both, he said, had lost any feel for the transcendent, […]