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J. Chase DavisFeaturedCultureCurrent Politics

Borderless - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

There is great concern in the church today about individualism. From Carl Trueman’s work on expressive individualism to other works revealing its deficiencies and threats to Christian spirituality, ours is believed to be an age of individualism. These critiques are […]

Flynn EvansFeaturedCulture

Making Theology Public - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

A steadily growing number of disillusioned evangelicals are finding comfort in the subversive doctrines of Christian Reconstructionism. As noted by Andrew Walker in an essay about the movement, those taking in the notions of Reconstructionism suffer mostly from dissatisfaction with […]

Rory GrovesFamilyFeaturedEconomics and Business

Resignations and Reunions: Industrialism's Broken Promises - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

An epochal shift is underway; one that social scientists will dissect for decades. And it doesn’t bode well for corporate America. In what economists are calling ‘The Great Resignation’, one-third of the employed workforce—over 47 million laborers—quit their jobs in […]

David MooreFeatured

Transcendentalists Against Slavery - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Peter Wirzbicki is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University. The following interview revolves around his book, Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery. Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery (America […]

Alex R. WendelFeatured

Modern (Psycho)Social Imaginaries: Towards a Taylorian Critique of Pop-Psychology - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Do we really need another essay about Charles Taylor? I think so. What I am interested in briefly exploring here is how Taylor’s work, specifically in A Secular Age, can help us understand the draw people feel towards pop psychology […]

David MooreFeaturedEvangelicalism

C. S. Lewis on Evangelism and Beauty with Randy Newman - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Randy Newman is Senior Fellow for Evangelism and Apologetics at the C.S. Lewis Institute in the Washington D.C. area. Randy is the author of several books including Mere Evangelism which is the basis of the following interview. Mere Evangelism: 10 […]

Ben ChristensonFeaturedCurrent Politics

Masks, Mercy, and Measure for Measure - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Masks have made the slippery concept of “virtue-signaling” oddly literal. The virtues of care and the safety of others or freedom and individual liberty now can be visibly signaled simply by wearing or abstaining from a mask. Mundane tasks like […]

Andrew ArndtBibleFeatured

Revisiting the Sacrifice of Isaac - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

J. Richard Middleton. Abraham’s Silence: The Binding of Isaac, The Suffering of Job, and How to Talk Back to God. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2021. 272pp, $26.99. Did Abraham pass the test in Genesis 22? And does it matter for how […]

Noah DiekemperBibleFeatured

The Case for Rearranging the Old Testament Books - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The ordering of the books in our English Bible is standard, if not universal―seemingly set in stone, even. But that order actually embodies a break with the wisdom and practice that came before. For many years, the Old Testament was […]

Steven WedgeworthFeaturedChurch

In Memoriam: Rev. Dr. Gregg Strawbridge - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The Reverend Doctor Gregg Strawbridge died on January 26th, 2022 from a sudden heart attack. His death was entirely unexpected and has occasioned an outpouring of love and admiration from those who knew him and benefitted from his ministry. An […]

Jonathan LeemanFeatured

A Baptist Third Way for Political Theology - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Author’s note: The following article is the first half of a chapter I have contributed to a book tentatively titled Explorations in Baptist Political Theology, edited by Thomas Kidd, Paul Miller, and Andrew Walker, to be published by B&H Academic […]

Ian ClaryFeatured

Puritans and Theonomy, Reconsidered - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Joseph Boot, The Mission of God: A Manifesto of Hope for Society, 2nd ed. (2014; Toronto: Ezra Press, 2016), 978-0-9947279-0-9, 683 pages. Many Christians do not have a worked out political theology. We are aware of the importance of being […]