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An Interview with Andrew Peterson About "The Wingfeather Saga" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

One of the few highlights of 2020 for me has been getting to read the Wingfeather Saga to my kids. It gave us a bedtime routine and something to look forward to every night for several months as we made […]

Casey ChalkFeaturedCurrent Politics

Who's Your Authority?: Notes on Ideology and Enemies - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I don’t think it would be fair to blame my father for his distrust of authority. Growing up in 1960s Jim Crow Alabama, in a hardscrabble, blue-collar family that aspired for white-collar status, he didn’t have particularly good influences. He […]

Joshua HeavinFeatured

Book Review: Remembrance, Communion, and Hope by J. Todd Billings - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

J. Todd Billings. Remembrance, Communion, and Hope: Rediscovering the Gospel at the Lord’s Table. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2018. 217 pp. $20, hardcover. Like the ghost of a dear friend dead Is Time long past. A tone which is now […]

Joel CuthbertsonFeaturedEvangelicalism

Radio Theatre and the Problem of Evangelical Art | Mere Orthodoxy

I. Embed from Getty Images Either you’ve never heard the name John Avery Whittaker, or you recognize it like an old friend’s. In fact, his friends call him Whit. You’ll like him immediately, and the more you learn about his […]

Christine LathamFeaturedEvangelicalism

What the Courtship Movement and Jedi Both Get Wrong | Mere Orthodoxy

Both the courtship movement popularized by Joshua Harris and the Jedi of the Star Wars universe make the same basic error regarding wisdom and the law.

Jake MeadorFeatured

Narnia Essay Contest - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We announced this on Twitter earlier in the week, but here’s the official announcement on our website: We’re running our first ever essay contest. We are going to publish seven essays, each of which arguing for why one of the […]

Kevin BrownFeaturedEducation

An Appeal from a Christian Liberal Arts University President - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

According to legend, thousands of years ago the mighty King Croesus of Lydia consulted with the oracle of Delphi to determine whether he should battle the great Persian Empire. The oracle famously replied, “If Croesus goes to war he will […]

Joshua HeavinFeaturedCreation Care

The Dust Bowl, Remembered - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In clean, cool air the morning after a thunderstorm, while blazing pink and golden light spills over the horizon before becoming a deep cerulean crown over a sweltering summer afternoon, it is difficult to imagine the conditions in Texas only […]

Matthew Lee AndersonFeaturedCurrent Politics

Can Justice Be Saved? Part Three: On Hope - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In the previous two essays of this triptych, I have attempted to sketch how the Gospel of Jesus Christ might shape our understanding of justice in order to clarify what our responsibilities as Christians might be in our own time. […]

Henry GeorgeFeatured

Book Review: Strange Rites by Tara Isabella Burton - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Matthew Arnold mourned the long withdrawing roar of faith in the 19th century. Fin de siècle European culture moved to the rhythm of Nietzsche’s poetry-by-jackhammer that proclaimed the death of God and the rule of the value-less Last Man. The […]

Joshua FarrisFeaturedembodiment

A Theology of Faces: Notes on the Costs of Masking - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I have heard it said time and time again: “Wearing a face covering is a small sacrifice to love your neighbor.” All this in the context of discussing face masks ever since the CDC and, some experts, decided that it […]

Matthew Lee AndersonFeaturedCurrent Politics

Can Charity Save Justice | Mere Orthodoxy

It was an ordinary Sunday afternoon in the Anderson household a few years back, full of books and tea and other comforts. My wife had momentarily interrupted my reading by giving me a kiss, seemingly without cause. It captured just […]