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Susannah Black RobertsFeaturedFormationJournalJournal 2

When Belief is Agony - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I love being a Christian. I mean, I love Jesus too. But I also love all the rest of it: Brunch after church with friends, hylomorphism, late-night Eucharist on Christmas Eve, and carols and stollen and roast beef and friends’ […]

Jamie WilderBibleFeaturedCurrent Politics

60 Questions for Pro-Choice Christians - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

For many evangelicals, the leaked draft decision last month felt like the culmination of many prayers, tears, hard conversations, and difficult decisions at the voting polls. Now that Roe has fallen, the most vulnerable will now have a chance to […]

Matthew LoftusFeaturedCurrent Politics

Kichijiro Was Right - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

You’ve probably heard this one before: a masked gunman bursts into church one day and fires a few rounds into the ceiling. “Everyone who believes in Jesus is getting shot today! Everyone who wants to deny Him can leave!” He […]

Ben ChristensonFeaturedEconomics and BusinessFormation

Waiting Tables as Soul Craft - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

During college, I became convinced I would become a consultant. I wasn’t pre-Med and didn’t want to join the Peace Corps, so this seemed to be the best (and only other respectable) option. I listened with childlike wonder as consulting […]

Brad LittlejohnFeaturedEthicsEconomics and BusinessJournalJournal 3

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

Among the many sayings of Jesus that have echoed down through the ages, few have continued to sound so loudly or uncomfortably in our ears as his warning, “You cannot serve both God and Mammon.” But this does not keep […]

Ana SiljakFeaturedHistoryCulture Warhealth

Purity Culture - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man’s blood.” (Matthew 27:24) Our contemporary culture has […]

Brandon D. SmithBibleFeatured

In Defense of Premodern Exegesis | Mere Orthodoxy

The fourfold method of interpreting Scripture favored by many church fathers is often misrepresented and misunderstood by its modern critics.

Jake MeadorFeatured

The Reality of Fear and the Presence of Reality: Suffering and Cultural Renewal - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

These are the remarks I gave as part of my plenary lecture at this year’s Eighth Day Institute Symposium in Wichita, KS. You can learn more about EDI’s work and sign up to support them as a member by visiting […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism

In Memoriam: Timothy Keller (1950-2023) - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The Road goes ever on and on Out from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, Let others follow it who can! Let them a journey new begin, But I at last with weary feet […]

Mike St. ThomasFeaturedEducation

Contemplative Pedagogy: Notes on Educating Screen-Addled Students - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Not long ago I taught a summer class in creative writing to middle schoolers. On one sun-drenched day, I took the class outside to wander through our campus and down to our stretch of shoreline on Narragansett Bay. Their task […]

Tessa CarmanFeaturedCreation Care

Becoming a Perennial: A Conversation with Grace Olmstead - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We’ve Left Behind (March 2021) Grace tells the story of her hometown of Emmett, Idaho, where her great-grandfather and great-grandmother lived and farmed, and where her grandparents and parents still live. Through […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

Christianity Against the Civilizational State(s) - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In his book Return of the Strong Gods, First Things editor Rusty Reno suggests that we are nearing the end of the long 20th century and, with it, the end of the American-centric global order that defined the latter stage […]