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Sanctified by Grace Blog Tour: Mortification, Vivification

We're continuing our review of Sanctified by Grace with a brief review of John Webster's essay on mortification and vivification.

Jake MeadorBibleFormation

Sanctified by Grace Blog Tour: Election

We're reviewing Suzanne McDonald's essay on election in our first post with the Sanctified by Grace blog tour.

Jake MeadorChurchEvangelicalismFormation

On Loving and Hating Places

There are a few more things that need to be said as we wrap up this week’s Crump-related fun. (And no, I did not watch last night’s debate so do not ask me about it. I was busy playing Football […]

Jake MeadorChurchFormation

Evangelicals need to read Richard Hooker.

I’m pleased to host this excellent interview between Mere Fidelity contributor Alastair Roberts and my friend Dr. Brad Littlejohn. Dr. Littlejohn, who did his doctoral work at Edinburgh with Mere O favorite Oliver O’Donovan, has just published a popular level […]

Jake MeadorembodimentFormation

The Strength of the Hills is not Ours

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

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

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

The stories of two impending deaths has recently come before our society’s attention, and justly so. Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old who recently transplanted herself from San Francisco

Matthew LoftusCultureFormation

Engagement is Discipleship

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