Tag: Humor
Forthcoming Special Edition Bibles from a Major Christian Publisher
The Mere O team has deep connections to the Christian publishing industry, and over the course of a recent three-mocktail lunch in midtown Manhattan with an unnamed industry bigwig, our operative managed to secure a list of titles forthcoming from...
7 Things You Should Know About the Evangelical Deep State
By Susannah Black, Matt Loftus, and Jake Meador 2017 was the year of the deep state, a year when the inner workings of the American system were exposed to the world and we realized that what we thought was a...
Mary Did You Know? A Mere O Symposium
By Christian Young, Susannah Black, Jon Coppage, and Jon Askonas Today we will be discussing a much loved, but also much hated, Christmas song, “Mary, Did You Know?”
Retitling Classic Christian Books for the Internet Age
Thanks to Jon Askonas and Matt Loftus for their help with this. St. Augustine: Crazy Mixed-Up Love: How I Tried Everything Else And Accidentally Found Jesus Martin Luther: Stop Going to Church: How the Church Undermines Authentic Christian Spirituality
Two Cow Denominations
Calvinism – You have two bulls. They argue with each other incessantly. You have no idea what they are talking about. Appalachian holiness – You have two snakes. Acts 29 – You have a bull and a cow. They are...
Behind the Music: The Bathroom Bolsheviks
Critic: The first time I saw The Bathroom Bolsheviks live was in 1877. It was unlike anything I or anyone else had ever seen. Audience Member: When Trotsky came out on stage, the crowd went crazy. And then when their...
Will the Church Continue to Kill People with Hepatitis C?
Friends, There is an urgent soul-cry from the culture. From our neighbors. This cry has been silenced by the church and ignored by the media.
The Oppressive Church Has Tried to Get Independent Teachers Under Their Authority Since the Beginning
Ephesus – AD 52 – Darkest Timeline Caius and Nikola linger in the front room, waiting for Justus to finishing tidying up. The house church had just finished their Sunday meeting, and they needed to get home before dark.
Gangs of New Jerusalem: Act 1
We’ve been told that this is “unintelligible.” “Self-indulgently self-referential,” they’ve called it. “Possibly a really bad idea.” “Only five people will get it,” they’ve said. Well, you know who else they said that about? Shaw. Molière. Sheridan. Congreve. Aristophanes. Also...