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Kirsten SandersFeaturedEvangelicalism

Missing the Subtler Yet Greater Problem: Replying to "Jesus and John Wayne" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Author’s Note I wrote and submitted this essay in advance of the January 6th events at the Capitol. Since then there has been a deluge of think-pieces and journalistic treatments of the events and the role “evangelicals” had in them. […]

Todd ThompsonFeaturedEvangelicalismCurrent Politics

A Homegrown Christian Insurgency - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We’re living between the times. We’re in the territory of the “already, but not yet.” Is the kingdom of insurgency at hand?

Jamie CarlsonFeaturedEvangelicalism

Accusations Aren't Evidence: Responding to "Jesus and John Wayne" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Flannery O’Connor’s short story “Revelation” begins with a holier-than-thou character having a book, along with her sin, thrown in her face. She returns home with a bruised face and bruised pride to reflect on her sins. For many of us, […]

Sean Michael LucasFeaturedEvangelicalism

Jesus Plus Masculinity for America's Sake: Replying to "Jesus and John Wayne" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

As I reflected on Calvin University professor Kristin Du Mez’s brilliantly provocative and painful, Jesus and John Wayne, I realized how many different intersections I had with her subject. After all, I serve as a pastor in a Presbyterian denomination […]

Elizabeth SticeFeatured

Book Review: History and Eschatology by N. T. Wright - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

History and Eschatology is a dense but rewarding book based on NT Wright’s Gifford Lectures, in which Wright is attempting to redirect natural theology, bringing history and biblical exegesis to the questions of natural theology to see if that “might […]

Andrew ArndtBibleFeatured

Book Review: Sanctifying Interpretation by Chris E. W. Green - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“God does not save us from interpretation but by it and for it.”[1] So claims Chris Green in the second edition of his marvelous book Sanctifying Interpretation: Vocation, Holiness, and Scripture. (Those familiar with the first edition of his book […]

Jake MeadorFeatured

Catholicism in the Swamp: A Response to Brandon McGinley's "The Prodigal Church" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Ed. note: This is the third and final response in our symposium on Brandon McGinley’s book The Prodigal Church. The American landscape has been a fertile seedbed historically for a very specific sort of Christianity. Methodism and Baptist expressions of the […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism

Defining "White Evangelical Crap" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

One of the comments I got in response to Monday’s post was a fairly simple question: “What exactly do you have in mind when you talk about ‘white evangelical crap?'” It’s a fair question. So here’s an attempt at an […]

Myles WerntzFeatured

Engagement Without Fear: Responding to Brandon McGinley's "The Prodigal Church" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

To anyone paying attention to church participation in North America over the last forty years, things are not now, nor have they been, very good. The jeremiads have been spoken, the eulogies written, and the post-mortem begun, while the patient […]

Ross McCulloughFeatured

Authenticity and Prodigality: Response to Brandon McGinley's "The Prodigal Church" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Ed. Note: This is the first response of three we will be publishing as part of a brief symposium on Brandon McGinley’s book The Prodigal Church. One of the ways that Catholics tell the story of modernity—think for instance of Charles […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism

After Evangelicalism - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Recently I was talking with a dear friend about how the gift that our particular collegiate experience gave us could be summarized this way: It made it possible for us to disentangle “Christianity” from “stupid American evangelical crap.”

Jake MeadorFeatured

Best of Mere Orthodoxy 2020 - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

As in previous years, here is a compilation of the best writing we’ve published in 2020. God has been kind to us this year as we are now wrapping up what has been our best year for traffic since the […]