Contributor

Politics

Filed under

Politics

Matthew LoftusPoliticsFeatured

Starfish Stories - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

At the climax of the recent wannabe-blockbuster film The Suicide Squad[1], a giant mind-controlling starfish is wreaking havoc across a nondescript non-American city when the team of super-villains (who are, from a story perspective, the heroes of the movie) must […]

Wyatt GrahamPoliticsFeatured

Government: Ally or Antagonist? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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

“Divided We Fall,” with David French

Susannah Black RobertsPolitics

American Solidarity Party: Don't Throw Away Your Shot - Radio Free Thulcandra

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 […]

Susannah Black RobertsPolitics

American Solidarity Party: Don't Throw Away Your Shot - Radio Free Thulcandra

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

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

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 | Mere Orthodoxy

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

Integralism with Pater Edmund Waldstein

Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsFeatured

Communicating the Gospel in a Partisan World | Mere Orthodoxy

“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 - Radio Free Thulcandra

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 […]