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The Burden of Parenting: In Praise of Christian Simplicity

Christian simplicity is not only a call to a certain way of material life, it is a call toward orienting our lives toward the God who is simple.

Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsFeaturedEvangelicalism

The Impossibility of an Evangelical Conservatism

Can American evangelicalism be a conservative movement? If by 'conservative' we mean 'able to conserve the permanent things,' then the answer is, "no."

Derek RishmawyFeaturedEvangelicalism

Revisiting the Progressive Evangelical Package

How has progressive evangelicalism shifted in the last several years? How has it remained the same? Derek Rishmawy reviews the evolution of the movement.

Jonathan LeemanFeaturedChurchEvangelicalism

Baptist Sacramentology and the Concern with Donatism

Jonathan Leeman responds to Gavin Ortlund's concerns about implicit Donatism in Baptist thought as well as his other criticisms of closed membership.

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There is One Baptism But Not One Baptist View of Baptism

Gavin Ortlund responds to Jonathan Leeman's criticism of his arguments for some version of open membership practices in Baptist churches.

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Returning to the Sources: The Scholarship of Richard Muller

By Michael Lynch Today, if you walk into a random art gallery in the Grand Rapids, Mich. area, you might come across an 18th century Dutch landscape oil painting with a windmill or a church in its background. Perhaps, the […]

Jonathan LeemanFeaturedChurchEvangelicalism

Church Membership and the Definition of Baptism

(1: Gavin Ortlund’s Initial Post, 3: Gavin Ortlund’s Response, 4: Jonathan Leeman’s Final Response) Gavin, Thank you for the opportunity to interact with you on this matter. I’m grateful for you and our partnership in the gospel, and I remember your time […]

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Book Review: The Gospel in Dorothy L. Sayers

By Gina Dalfonzo “The variety of Dorothy Sayers’s work makes it almost impossible to find anyone who can deal properly with it all,” wrote C. S. Lewis in his eulogy for his friend and fellow writer. “. . . I […]

Guest WriterFeaturedChurchEvangelicalism

Can We Reject Paedobaptism and Still Receive Paedobaptists?

It should be possible for Baptists to both have defined membership practices in their church and to receive those baptized as infants into full membership.

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The Mere Orthodoxy Holiday Gift Giving Guide

Do you have a weird Christian friend who is Extremely Online? Use our guide to help you find the perfect gift for them this Christmas.

Jonathan LeemanFeaturedChurchEvangelicalism

Evangelicalism, Christian Identity, and Church Membership

Many evangelical institutions have an alarming tendency to function as if the local church were an afterthought or an add-on to the Christian life.

Jake MeadorFeaturedBlogging

Mere Orthodoxy Best of 2018

We ran our list of the best feature writing in 2018 yesterday. Today I wanted to recap the written work we have done at Mere O this year. Due almost entirely to changes with Facebook’s algorithm, our traffic numbers are […]