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Jake MeadorFeaturedCulture War

The Lord's Work in the Lord's Way: Against the Culture War - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

One of the saddest consequences of the culture war is that it has managed to make people boring. The culture war has made us predictable, even if individual people are anything but. The libertarian online troll is in real life […]

Matthew Lee AndersonFeatured

Sex, Temptation, and the Gay Christian: What Chastity Demands - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Can we have an argument about being a ‘gay Christian’? That is the question which I have been wondering since the storm of Baptist and Presbyterian furor descended upon Revoice. The conference is an attempt by a wide variety of […]

Matthew Lee AndersonFeatured

The Christian and Homosexuality: Further Notes Toward an Evangelical Sexual Ethic - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Note: Given the recent discussions about Revoice–a conference at which I am speaking–I asked Jake if he would republish the two chapters from my first book that are directly on questions of sexual desire. Today’s essay takes up the question of homosexuality. Yesterday’s […]

Matthew Lee AndersonFeatured

The Body and its Pleasure: Toward an Evangelical Sexual Ethic - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Note: Given the recent discussions about Revoice–a conference at which I am speaking–I asked Jake if he would republish the two chapters from my first book that are directly on questions of sexual desire. Today’s essay takes up how evangelicalism has depicted […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyFeaturedCurrent Politics

Romans 13, Jeff Sessions, and Separating Families at the Border - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Romans 13 can't be misused to argue that jailing people for a misdemeanor supersedes the good of families remaining together.

Steven WedgeworthFeatured

A Critical Review of Spiritual Friendship - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

By Steven Wedgeworth Later this summer a group of Christian writers will meet in St Louis for the Revoice Conference, an event that seeks to make a place for “gay, lesbian, same-sex attracted, and other LGBT Christians” in the conservative […]

Guest WriterFeaturedCurrent Politics

Lessons from Valladolid: On Being Decent in an Indecent Age

Bartolome de las Casas and Juan Sepulveda's debate about the Spanish conquest might seem remote to us, but if we look closer it is all very familiar.

Brewer EberlyFeatured

Movie Review: A Quiet Place - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

By Brewer Eberly It’s difficult to be silent about A Quiet Place—Paramount’s recent creature-feature directed by and starring John Krasinski (yes, Jim Halpert from The Office) and his wife, Emily Blunt (Sicario, Edge of Tomorrow, The Devil Wears Prada). A […]

Guest WriterPoliticsFeaturedChurch

Religious Liberty and Religious Establishment: A Reply to Trabbic

The Catholic argument for a confessional state is a compelling one. Unfortunately, the same premises also support religious coercion.

Guest WriterFamilyFeatured

How the Irish Lost Themselves and How They May Find Themselves Again

The British Empire spent centuries trying to destroy Irish lives. Last week the Irish chose to do to themselves what the British could not.

Miles SmithFeaturedCurrent Politics

Evangelical Indifference to Immigrant Families in Historical Perspective

Even slave-holding southern Protestants recognized that breaking up families was a great evil. What does it say about evangelicals today that we do not?

Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

Can There Be Mercy in Trump's America? | Mere Orthodoxy

Last week provided two more examples of what is an increasingly hard-to-dispute fact: There will be little mercy in the post-2016 United States.