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[This post is lengthy; be forewarned] As I expected would happen, the readers of Mere-O have responded both with class, sensitivity, and elegance to my original post, in which
Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsPolitical Theology
While rereading To Change the World, I came across this passage, where Hunter almost anticipates my remarks: Some argue that what we need is a redefinition of politics, one that
Andrew WalkerPoliticsSociology
Of late, one of the current topics I've spent the most time thinking about has been the debate surrounding the plan to build a Mosque near Ground Zero.
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What was perpetrated this week by a particular brand of conservatism was neither conservative nor amenable to any type of Christianity seeking to align itself with the Right. I am, of course, referring to the Breitbartian tactics employed against Shirley […]
Matthew MillinerPoliticsPolitical Theology
What if political conservatism, properly understood (as it almost never is) not as the propagation of ideology, but as ideology's negation, naturally avoids James Davison Hunter's
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Three American flags draped the coffins lying on the cargo floor of my C-17. It was only three hours earlier that I had received a phone call informing me
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I'd never heard of George William Curtis before this past Saturday. A quote of his popped up on my friend's facebook wall, in what I assume
Andrew WalkerPolitics
Dr. Russell Moore of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has written the most lucid and judicious piece on the tragedy of the BP Oil Spill—anywhere. No secular media source
Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsPolitical Theology
I have written plenty about Oliver O'Donovan's political theology. Or not so much "written" as quoted. In many ways, I'm still in
Andrew WalkerPolitics
Justin Taylor, on his blog, has quoted a very helpful and thoughtful clarifying statement from John Murray on the interplay between the church and politics, but more particularly about how Christians go about doing politics as Christians and also as […]
Andrew WalkerPolitics
Aaron Weaver, The Big Daddy Weave, in a recent post, accused Southern Seminary President Albert Mohler of peddling a false bill of goods to his readers: “selling fear and actively
Andrew WalkerPolitics
Aside from its free-verse eccentricity and its spiteful, disrespectful tone (referring to any theistic belief simply as “religious hocus pocus”), Marc Cooper’s opinion column in today's