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Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism

The Mystique of the Pro-Life Movement: On Trump & the March for Life

The victory that an alliance with Trump will secure for the pro-life movement is real, but comes at the cost of the movement's vitality and credibility.

M H TurnerFeaturedChurch

Why Is Anglicanism a Gateway to Catholicism? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

By M. H. Turner If you have been an Anglican in North America for more than a decade or two, there is an experience you have almost certainly had. You have known someone who got up one day and jumped […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedCulture

Re: Mobs and Cancel Culture - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Due to a variety of factors, journalism in the digital age has in many places been swallowed by PR. Part of this is a function of the way online networks tend to work, while part of it is due to […]

Daniel DormanFeatured

Why We Should Read Poetry - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

For most people today the reader of poetry is a quaint and obscure character, like a collector of antique dolls or stamps. The reader of poetry is looked upon as someone absorbed in a personal and sentimental interest with almost […]

Ginny OwensFeaturedEvangelicalism

A Long Faithfulness in the Same Direction: What I Learned About God from Tim Keller - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I was eight. Seated at the old, out of tune, upright piano in the back corner of our dining room, I rehearsed again the hymn I’d just discovered how to play. “Great is Thy Faithfulness” has surprising major chords where […]

Stiven PeterFeaturedCultureEvangelicalism

Tim Keller: Missionary to the Cities - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

On Sundays, I go to a church whose senior pastor and elder board were mentored by Tim Keller. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I attend classes in a seminary brought to New York by Tim Keller. When I see a homeless […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism

I think we should stop shrinking back. - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

There’s an old Hauerwas quote that a Mennonite friend of mine never tires of sharing: Christians are often tempted, particularly in this time called modern, to say more than we know. We are so tempted because we fear we do […]

Samuel JamesFeaturedEvangelicalism

Does Maturity Still Matter? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I’ve been reading Mark Sayers’s interesting book A Non-Anxious Presence, and was particularly struck by this passage: As a network is swamped by chronic anxiety, it is marked by reactivity. Those within the system no longer act rationally, but rather, […]

John EhrettFeaturedCultureHistory

The End of Viking Vitalism - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The third act of Robert Zemeckis’s underrated Beowulf adaptation begins with a dour meditation. “We men are the monsters now,” the aging hero rumbles. “The time of heroes is dead, Wiglaf—the Christ God has killed it, leaving humankind with nothing […]

Michael ShindlerPoliticsFeaturedCultureHistory

The Fate of Cain - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Since the modern-turn, no topic has provoked more speculation—from as many angles and at the nexus of so many disciplines—than that of modernity itself. We speculate as to when it really started, where it has as of yet taken hold, […]

Joseph HonesckoFeatured

Orthodox Beauty in the Face of Religious Abuse: Women Talking’s Generous Depiction of Christianity - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

If there were an award for getting audiences to live out the title of a film, Sarah Polley’s Women Talking would win in a landslide. The recent Academy Award winner for Best Adapted Screenplay has accomplished what good film–and good […]

John CarpenterBibleFeatured

When the Therapeutic God Isn't Sufficient - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

There was blood everywhere. The dead child – a baby of about 20 weeks gestation – just delivered, lay at one end of the table. The nurse took the body away. My wife, at the other end, laying in anguish […]