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Jake MeadorembodimentFormation

The Strength of the Hills is not Ours | Mere Orthodoxy

Wesley Morris's recent piece in the NYT considers the wide-scale identity crisis we have witnessed in 2015 without getting to the root of the problem.

Jake MeadorEconomics and BusinessFormation

Forgiveness and Our Modern Technocrats

The Kim Davis story doesn't simply raise questions about same-sex marriage licenses, but also about the possibility of forgiveness and reconciliation.

Jake MeadorCulture WarCurrent PoliticsFormation

Protestantism and the Benedict Option - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The following is less a long-form essay and more a series of semi-connected thoughts concerning the Benedict Option and American Protestantism. I’ve broken them down with headers in hopes of making it easier for readers to pick out which parts […]

Matthew LoftusEvangelicalismFormation

Fear the Lifestyle that will Kill Body and Soul - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Matthew Loftus on the virtues of risk, the dangers of comfort, and how it all relates to the ongoing Benedict Option conversation.

Jake MeadorCulture WarFormation

Home, Retreat, and the Benedict Option

If the Benedict Option is to succeed, then we cannot understand it as the creation of retreats. We must instead see it as being about the creation of homes.

Brett McCrackenHomosexualityTechnologyChurchEvangelicalismTheology and PracticeSexualitySocial MedialgbtqQ BostonRod DreherMichael HortonGabe LyonsQ Ideasgay marriageFormation

What Proximity is Worth

Reflections on Q Boston, healthy disagreement and the importance of relational proximity in a world of disembodied discourse and principles over people.

Matthew Lee AndersonEthicsPro-Lifephysician assisted suicideFormation

A Tale of Two Deaths

A Tale of Two Deaths

Matthew LoftusCultureFormation

Engagement is Discipleship - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

What does it mean to engage culture well? Ought we retreat, assimilate, or something else? Cultural engagement is discipleship.

Guest WriterMarriageTheology and PracticeSexualityearly marriageFormation

Marry or Burn?

Is it strange to urge people to marry young? Is Paul's suggestion in 1 Corinthians 7 fit for our present culture of dating?

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

The Lavishness of Friendship and a World Beyond Vows - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The lavishness of friendship takes us beyond vows and obligations. It is superogeratory.

Guest WriterFormation

A Joyful Indifference: A Reply from Tish Harrison-Warren - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Tish Harrison-Warren replies to Matthew Lee Anderson about disrespectable Christianity and the joy Christians need.

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

On Disrespectable Christianity

Christians often want respectability, even if they don't realize it. That's a good they should give up.