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Befriending Books: On Reading and Thinking with Alan Jacobs and Zena Hitz - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We like to think, of course, that we think; but what people allow to pass for thinking is usually about 90 percent reshuffling of images. —Robert Farrar Capon Do you want to do intellectual work? Begin by creating within you […]

Brianna LambertFeatured

Love, According to E. B. White - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I often feel great pressure to craft perfect answers. Whether it’s a question from my eight year old or from a friend in Bible study, my mind goes through all the angles to create a proper response. I don’t want […]

Isaiah BergFeatured

Book Review: Live Not by Lies by Rod Dreher | Mere Orthodoxy

Dreher's latest is a bracing and convicting call to commit ourselves to truth, even in the face of opposition and adversity.

Angela GorrellFeatured

Book Review: Can't Even by Anne Helen Petersen - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We live in a cultural landscape ripe for burnout. In Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation, Anne Helen Petersen engages in compelling cultural analysis to argue why millennials are not lazy or entitled (as they have wrongly been […]

Ian OlsonFeaturedCurrent Politics

Death Does Not Come for the Deserving - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

At that time, some people came and reported to Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. And He responded to them, “Do you think that these Galileans were more sinful than all Galileans because they […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

Christian Hospitality in an Age of Fear: An Interview with Rod Dreher - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

This is a lightly edited and condensed transcript of a conversation I had with Rod Dreher about his new book Live Not by Lies. Jake Meador: Thanks so much for joining me. I’m excited to talk to you more about […]

Cort GatliffFeaturedHealth and MedicineAnthropology

Book Review: The End of the Christian Life by J. Todd Billings - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We live in a death-denying and death-defying culture. We know, on an intellectual level, that one day we will die, yet we tend to avoid contemplating this inescapable truth more than is strictly necessary. For modern people, death is an […]

Kyle DillonFeatured

Natural Law in Early Protestantism - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The role of natural law in Reformed Protestantism has been a topic of considerable debate since the twentieth century. As early as the debate between Karl Barth and Emil Brunner in 1934, two competing views on natural law emerged: the […]

Bob StevensonFeaturedCurrent Politics

Citizen Strangers and the Cost of Compromise - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The words flowed in perfect patriotic cadence. “My fellow Americans, we are going through a time of testing. But if you look through the fog of these challenging times, you will see, our flag is still there today…” Words that […]

Paul D. MillerFeaturedCurrent Politics

Politics Is More Than Abortion vs Character - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

There has been a lot of Christian handwringing about American politics and the 2020 election. Al Mohler updated the same line of thought that has led to four decades of alliance between conservative, pro-life evangelicals with the Republican Party by […]

Patrick PiersonFeaturedCurrent Politics

Dogmatic Partisanship's Dead End | Mere Orthodoxy

The only way out of our death spiral of polarization is to set aside desires to purge the "other" from public life and, instead, seek to form coalitions.

Sahr MbriwaFeaturedEvangelicalismFormation

An Unbelieving Church - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Author and psychiatrist, Curt Thompson, once remarked “we become what we pay attention to.” Reformulated as a question, it becomes arguably the guiding question we need today, namely who are you becoming? In a time of political crisis and social […]