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J. Brandon MeeksFeaturedEvangelicalism

We Don't Need Revival - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“We need revival.” ~The Teeming Masses This phrase, ubiquitous among broad evangelicals, has transmogrified from banal cliche to axiomatic mantra. Having been chanted with such frequency that there is virtually no quarter among popular Christianity where it doesn’t reverberate, it […]

Matthew Lee AndersonFeaturedCulture WarCurrent Politics

Can Justice Be Saved? | Mere Orthodoxy

Christians can't embrace all aspects of contemporary ideas of social justice. But we must also recognize that what came before was similarly dangerous.

Emily BrighamFeaturedCurrent Politics

The Insignificance of Voting - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“. . . [F]or the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived […]

Casey ChalkFeatured

The Wind in the Willows: A Tribute to Home and Friendship

Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows" offers readers a delightful and childlike account of the beauty of home and simple friendships.

Jake MeadorFeatured

Announcing the Mere Orthodoxy KickStarter - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We have officially launched our KickStarter campaign! What follows is cross-posted from KickStarter: A Christian Magazine for Rootless Times Ours is a society of orphans, of people who don’t belong to anyone. Americans report skyrocketing rates of loneliness and mental […]

Onsi A. KamelFeatured

The World Was Not Worthy: In Memoriam Fr Paul Mankowski

Fr. Paul, like the Lord he followed, wandered in barren places for many days. He has now been called home to his eternal rest.

Nicholas MeverelFeatured

Memes and Icons | Mere Orthodoxy

Memes and icons are not merely two alternative forms of visual communication; they actually gesture toward two radically different concepts of reality.

KJ DrakeFeatured

Book Review: The Ascension of Christ by Patrick Schreiner - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

It is de rigeur to begin any work on the ascension with the contemporary church’s neglect of the doctrine. Despite numerous books published on the ascension in the past generation and the prominence of the doctrine in the creeds this […]

Joshua JensenBibleFeatured

Straightening Out the Bible? | Mere Orthodoxy

Joshua Jensen on how Bible translators should think about their work, about Scripture, and about the readers of their translations.

Elijah Del MedigoFeatured

Daf Yomi in Quarantine - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Throughout centuries of exile, the Talmud has been an oasis of calm for the Jewish people. Heinrich Heine famously called it “the portable homeland of the Jewish people.” The study of Talmud, even in the centuries-long suspension of national sovereignty, […]

Brad EdwardsFeaturedChurchEvangelicalism

The Church of Individualism - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Mark Sayers defines secularism as the pursuit of “the fruits of the Kingdom without the King.” It’s a beautifully succinct summary of a culture with a historical amnesia of it’s once-upon-a-time countercultural Christian foundations built to support the social virtues […]

Kaitlyn SchiessFeaturedCurrent Politics

For the Life of the World: Spiritual Formation and Public Life

An excerpt from Kaitlyn Schiess's forthcoming "Liturgy of Politics," coming out on September 8, 2020 from InterVarsity Press.