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100 Days of Dante - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

2021 marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri (b. 1265). Dante was a poet, a politician, a philosopher, and a theologian. He is best known for his masterpiece, La Commedia, known to anglophone readers as The Divine […]

Onsi A. KamelFeatured

Kanye the Pious - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

If you were to read half-a-dozen reviews of Kanye West’s latest album, Donda — and I recommend that you don’t —you would learn chiefly that West is a bad person. He’s a bad person for associating with social undesirables; he’s […]

Daniel HillFeatured

Book Review: Black Fundamentalists by Daniel Bare - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Daniel Bare. Black Fundamentalists: Conservative Christianity and Racial Identity in the Segregation Era. New York: New York University Press, 2021. 272 pp, $30. I was born and raised in the Pentecostal church, steeped and simmered in the rhythms of the AOG […]

Brad EastFeatured

Market Apocalypse - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Rodney Clapp. Naming Neo-Liberalism: Exposing the Spirit of Our Age. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2021. 250 pp, $24.00 In recent years liberalism has been on the ropes. Not the liberalism of the Democratic Party, where the L-word means “left of center.” Liberalism […]

Onsi A. KamelFeaturedCurrent Politics

We Became American: Why the Right is Wrong about Afghan Refugees - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In 1969, my father escaped Libya in the back of a Red Cross ambulance just after Moammar Qaddafi overthrew King Idris I. Just six years old, my father, along with my aunts and grandparents, fled directly from Tripoli to Baltimore, where he lived for […]

Nathan JowersFeaturedTrinity

Laughter and Simplicity: Why Didn’t the Monad Cross the Road? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Q. Why didn’t the monad cross the road? A. Because it lacks spatial location.

Matthew LoftusPoliticsFeatured

Starfish Stories - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

At the climax of the recent wannabe-blockbuster film The Suicide Squad[1], a giant mind-controlling starfish is wreaking havoc across a nondescript non-American city when the team of super-villains (who are, from a story perspective, the heroes of the movie) must […]

Joseph HonesckoFeaturedEvangelicalism

Book Review: Enjoying the Bible by Matthew Mullins - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Matthew Mullins. Enjoying the Bible: Literary Approaches to Loving the Scriptures. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2021. 224 pp, $22.99. I stood before my class of mostly unengaged private Christian school students in a small Texas town. Masks covered the bottom […]

Daniel DormanFeaturedCurrent Politics

The Maniac and the Theorist: Chesterton on Critical Theory - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

It does not matter how beautiful a house seems, how stately its design, how lofty its ceiling, or how well intentioned its builders; a house built on sand will fall when the rain comes (Matt. 7:27). Ultimately, the premises or […]

Elizabeth SticeFeaturedEvangelicalism

Book Review: Preachers N Sneakers by Ben Kirby - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Over the last couple of years, one of the most fun, or infuriating, Instagram accounts to follow has been @PreachersNSneakers. For the uninitiated or the slightly less active on Instagram, PreachersNSneakers is an account that mainly posts pictures of preachers […]

Mitch EastFeatured

Vengeance is the Lord's - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In the Song of Moses, the dying leader of Israel preaches the word of God to God’s people. In Deuteronomy 32:35, God declares in this song, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay.” God’s vengeance is deadly: “I put […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism

Racial Reconciliation and the Queen of the Sciences - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In the 2013 book Aliens in the Promised Land, editor Anthony Bradley along with a number of other people of color who have served in predominantly white evangelical institutions explain in great detail why, as the subtitle has it, “minority […]