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Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

Senator Rubio's Work | Mere Orthodoxy

It sounds good to argue that governmental family aid should be tied to work. But what if work is actually the problem for many Americans?

James ClarkFeatured

Book Review: Orthodox Anglican Identity by Charles Erlandson - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“To be an Anglican is to talk about what it means to be an Anglican.”[1] This has certainly been the case so far in the twenty-first century, with no fewer than four books on the subject published in the past […]

Rhys LavertyFeatured

Kafka in Heaven: "Soul" and the After Life as Bureaucracy

Pixar's "Soul" is the latest story to imagine the after life as a vast bureaucracy. Where it fails it fails because of the inhumanity of bureaucracy.

Vika PecherskyFeaturedCulture War

Dr. Trueman's Hauerwasian Turn - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“My wish is that this book might help Christians rediscover that their most important social task is nothing less than to be a community capable of hearing the story of God we find in the scripture and living in a […]

J. Chase DavisFeaturedChurchEvangelicalism

Missiology After Liberalism - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Christians concerned with contextualizing the gospel (i.e. thinking and living missionally) should consider the liabilities of the culture and society they inhabit. The excesses and vulnerabilities of various cultures are places where the gospel should come to bear. In western […]

Jesse RussellFeatured

Faith Lost and Found in "Ad Astra" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In his 2006 Wired essay, “The Church of the Non-Believers,” journalist Gary Wolf coined the term “New Atheists” to describe the intellectual movement inaugurated by a quartet of thinkers who pressed for a militant revival of Neo-Darwinism in the wake […]

Brad LittlejohnFeaturedCurrent Politics

Called to Judgment: A Critical Review of "Fratelli Tutti" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Like a prophetic denunciation from the days of ancient Israel, the Covid-19 pandemic has come upon our self-absorbed and decadent civilization like a bolt from the blue, throwing into sharp relief the follies and fault-lines in our moral thinking and […]

Matthew EmersonFeatured

From Death to Life: A Theological Reflection on Marilynne Robinson’s Jack - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In one sense, Marilynne Robinson’s Jack is a simple love story, one complicated by the harsh realities of Jim Crow, but still at bottom the beautifully quaint tale of how Jack Boughton and Della Miles met and fell in love […]

Jeremiah LawsonFeatured

Tuning is for Killjoys - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

More than ever, we need a subversive history of music. We need it both to subvert the staid accounts that misrepresent the past as well as to grasp the subversive quality inherent in these catalytic sounds in our own time. […]

Anthony BradleyFeaturedEvangelicalism

Critical Race Theory Isn't a Threat for Presbyterians - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The broader evangelical world is currently in turmoil over how to evaluate Critical Race Theory. In fact, six Southern Baptist seminary presidents signed a statement declaring Critical Race Theory to be incompatible to the non-binding doctrinal standards of their denomination.

Matthew LoftusFeaturedhealth

That Others May Live: Fetal Cell Lines and Vaccine Production - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The world breathed a collective sigh of relief at news that multiple vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 were found to be effective. No sooner had this news reached us before there was a moral greaseball gumming up […]

Jacob SimsFeaturedChurchEvangelicalismCurrent Politics

From the Ashes - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Despite formidable remnants of power, the western late-modern system and its globally imperial philosophies are collapsing under the weight of their internal inconsistencies and increasingly visible external shortcomings. For evidence of our collectively culpable failure, one need only look to […]