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Daniel HindmanFeaturedCurrent Politics

Health and the Power of the State | Mere Orthodoxy

If the police power gives the state right to act in matters of health, what happens when all of life is assumed under "health and wellness"?

Matthew EmersonFeatured

Sola Scriptura and Tradition: Friends or foes? | Mere Orthodoxy

There is a way to say more than the Bible says by insisting that theology consists of only repeating phrases from the Bible.

John SheltonFeaturedEvangelicalism

Stanley Hauerwas: Modern American Puddleglum | Mere Orthodoxy

Hauerwas's gift is the ability to punch through comforting myths that American Christians tell themselves in order to draw their attention to higher things.

E. J. HutchinsonFeaturedEvangelicalism

Avoidance is not Purity: An Ode on the Pence Rule | Mere Orthodoxy

We should be friends, quoth Potiphar's wife.

Joseph MinichFeaturedEvangelicalism

On Doubting Well | Mere Orthodoxy

Much reflection on doubt and Christianity gives the impression that the only ways forward are a fideist retreat to commitment or a renouncing of the faith.

Jake MeadorFeatured

Book Review: Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick Deneen

Deneen's critics who focus on policy questions are missing the point of Deneen's book, which is that the world responsible for those policies is failing.

Brandon McGinleyPoliticsFeatured

Stop Making Hospitality Complicated | Mere Orthodoxy

If we think "hospitality" means "entertaining" and "serving gourmet meals in an immaculately clean house," we'll probably never practice actual hospitality.

Guest WriterFeaturedChurchEvangelicalism

Today's World Would Not Be Strange to Paul: On Church Discipline

When Paul wrote to the Corinthians on discipline and sexual sin he was writing to people who lived in a world that was in many ways like our own.

Jake MeadorFeaturedChurch

The Crisis in Christian Discipline and the Opportunity Before Us

American Christianity's moral witness has been badly weakened at a time when we could provide a confused, fracturing world with a hopeful alternative.

Guest WriterFeatured

The Confusions and Dangers of a Church of Mercy | Mere Orthodoxy

Wesley Hill reviews Ross Douthat's book "To Change the Church," arguing that Pope Francis's call to mercy is both admirable and potentially revolutionary.

Matthew LoftusPoliticsFeatured

Stay Woke, Cultivate Virtue - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The new synthetic morality fails precisely because it offers no account of personal formation, no means of shaping an individual person toward virtue.

Aaron RennFeaturedEvangelicalism

Jordan Peterson's Folk Wisdom - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Peterson's appeal is rooted in his adherence to traditional folk wisdom during an age when many, including evangelicals, have abandoned it.