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Zack HolbrookFeatured

Guide Us Home: A Review of "On the Road with Saint Augustine"

This is the lesson of Jamie Smith’s book: we are never not on the road. But it is not just any road we are called to; it is the Way.

Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism

Reformation Day and the Waning of the Western Church

The Reformation was not only concerned with theological reform, but also moral reform. It called a decadent church, choking on its own power, to repent.

Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

The Liberty of a Christian in a Democratic Age | Mere Orthodoxy

Schmitz argues that democracies force their members to choose between liberty and Christianity. Historic Protestantism says this is a false dichotomy.

Michael ShindlerFeatured

The Joke's on You: Why Leviathan Needs Joker - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

As men require a heaping dose of dreams to reconcile themselves to waking life, so too does the hulking Leviathan of society require its dreams—which are films. This fantastical notion—that films function as society’s dreams—was first heralded by a smattering […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

There is No Wealth but Life: Rootedness in an Orphaned World

Any social program that attempts to chart the way through late liberalism that doesn't foreground the goodness of life will fail in its aims.

Guest WriterBibleFeaturedEvangelicalism

Does the Baptist Faith and Message Exclude Theistic Evolution?

Can one affirm a type of theistic evolution and serve in the SBC? The Baptist Faith and Message doesn't give a clear answer.

Jake MeadorFeatured

The Necessity of Nations | Mere Orthodoxy

Families, churches, and governments are not complete societies in themselves. Nations are. And we ought to belong to those nations as Christian citizens.

Michael McKoyFeatured

Nationalism for a Multi-Tribal People | Mere Orthodoxy

An American nationalism that lacks an understanding of America's injustice to minorities will be unable to overcome the charge of racism appended to it.

Matthew Lee AndersonFeaturedCurrent Politics

A Failed Attempt to Reset the Nationalism Debate | Mere Orthodoxy

Werntz's essay rightly foregrounds the centrality of economics in understanding nations, but its treatment of economic injustice is reductionistic.

Matthew LoftusPoliticsFeatured

Pro-Blood, Pro-Soil, Pro-Nation, Pro-Christianity | Mere Orthodoxy

People ought to live in close relationship to their family and place of birth. But western nations have made that very difficult for the majority world.

Myles WerntzPoliticsFeatured

What is a Nation? | Mere Orthodoxy

The debates about Christianity and nationalism have missed the central problem because they have not sufficiently reckoned with neo-liberal globalization.

Harold RaleyFeatured

Julián Marías: Philosophy and the Centrality of the Person

The Spanish philosopher Julián Marías, a disciple of José Ortega y Gasset, developed the latter's philosophy of the person in groundbreaking ways.