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Wyatt GrahamPoliticsFeatured

Government: Ally or Antagonist?

In years past, Christians were an ascendant force in culture. More recently, they have become a forgotten relic. Whether cultural force or relic, governing authorities rarely had cause to make Christians uncomfortable. But the coronavirus pandemic led to regional lockdowns […]

Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsCultureTheologyChurchMere Fidelityreligion

“Divided We Fall,” with David French

Can you think of a single issue—political, cultural, religious, or anything—that is uniting Americans more than it is dividing them? David French joins Matt, Derek, and Alastair to

Susannah Black RobertsPolitics

American Solidarity Party: Don't Throw Away Your Shot

Why not vote for a candidate you can actually support? Brian Carroll and Amar Patel, the American Solidarity Party ticket, are on the ballot in eight states; you can write them in in all other states. They’re a party that […]

Caleb WaitPoliticsCultureChurchMere FidelityGuns

"God and Guns in America," with Dr. Michael Austin

How should Christians think and act with respect to guns and gun ownership? Dr. Michael Austin (Professor of Philosophy at Eastern Kentucky University and Senior Fellow of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Vika PecherskyPoliticsFeaturedCulture

We're All Legalists Now: Notes on Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Address

Alexander Solzhenitsyn opens his Harvard commencement address with a statement that is characteristically Russian, something Dostoyevsky would probably say — “The truth is seldom pleasant; it is invariably bitter.”

Brandon McGinleyPoliticsFeaturedChurch

The Church Speaks to the World: On Pope Francis's Urbi et Orbi Blessing

Pope Francis's benediction was a signal that the Roman Church wishes to speak not with the world but to the world—and to call it to life in Christ.

Susannah Black RobertsPoliticsFeatured

Common Good Constitutionalism Considered

The reaction against Vermeule's common good constitutionalism is proof that our political imaginations have been captive to libertarianism for far too long.

Caleb WaitPoliticsTheologyChurchchrist and cultureMere FidelityRoman Catholicism

Integralism with Pater Edmund Waldstein

Nearly every Christian tradition has its own view on Christ & Culture; that is, how the Christian church relates to secular culture and political powers. In this episode, Pater Edmund

Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsFeatured

Communicating the Gospel in a Partisan World

“My kingdom is not of this world.” As he approaches the crux of his earthly life, our Savior simultaneously qualifies Pilate’s authority while submitting himself to it. It is an astonishing moment of political quietism, which is possible only because […]

Susannah Black RobertsPoliticsHistory

Auschwitz

The only Auschwitz survivor I knew well was my friend Claire Fiala. She died about 18 months ago; she was my neighbor, and I spent a couple of winters shoveling her walk, until, in the last two years of her […]

Matthew ArboPoliticsFeaturedChurch

Come, Desire of Nations, Come: An Advent Reflection

Wesley's evocative line in "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing," is a reference to Haggai. Looking closely at the text can help us better understand the hymn.

Matthew LoftusPoliticsFeatured

Pro-Blood, Pro-Soil, Pro-Nation, Pro-Christianity

People ought to live in close relationship to their family and place of birth. But western nations have made that very difficult for the majority world.