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Myles WerntzPoliticsFeatured

What is a Nation? | Mere Orthodoxy

The debates about Christianity and nationalism have missed the central problem because they have not sufficiently reckoned with neo-liberal globalization.

Susannah Black RobertsArtPolitics

On Faustian Christianity: a fragment - Radio Free Thulcandra

The following is a section that I added to my recent Front Porch Republic talk after I gave it. It’s going to appear in the published version but I decided it needed an independent existence. Think of it as a […]

Susannah Black RobertsPolitics

Liberal Sacraments - Radio Free Thulcandra

Recently, Adrian Vermeule published a piece in Church Life Journal in which he pointed out the inherently destabilizing nature of liberalism. As he describes it, the “natural laws” of the life of regimes dictate that the persistence of a regime […]

Brad LittlejohnPoliticsFeatured

A National Conservative Awakening - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I made my way to the Ritz-Carlton in downtown Washington D.C. for the National Conservatism Conference Sunday evening with some trepidation, unsure what to expect, and feeling wildly out of place among what seemed like a crowd of thinktank wonks, […]

Zack HolbrookPoliticsFeaturedCulture War

The World We Have and the World We Want | Mere Orthodoxy

A properly Christian political witness consists as much in the manner of our action as it does in the content of our ideas.

Jake MeadorPoliticsFeatured

Can Justice Be Saved? Faith, Hope, and Love in a Political Key

Matthew Lee Anderson recently delivered three lectures at Biola University on justice which are now available online for viewing.

Susannah Black RobertsPolitics

On Nick Kristof, Jean Vanier, and Human Resources - Radio Free Thulcandra

Right. So this is a kind of complicated non-hot take spurred by Nicholas Kristof’s excellent and horrible piece in the Times today. Kristof is reporting from Guatemala, where almost half of all children are physically and mentally stunted because of […]

Susannah Black RobertsArtPolitics

Rise up, wretched man: enough tears have flowed. - Radio Free Thulcandra

Several months ago, I went with a group of friends– mostly church people, from Emmanuel Anglican– to see a production of Euripides’ Herakles, in the original Greek, directed by our friend Caleb Simone. It was part of his doctoral work, […]

Susannah Black RobertsArtPolitics

Rise up, wretched man: enough tears have flowed. - Radio Free Thulcandra

Several months ago, I went with a group of friends– mostly church people, from Emmanuel Anglican– to see a production of Euripides’ Herakles, in the original Greek, directed by our friend Caleb Simone. It was part of his doctoral work, […]

Jake MeadorPoliticsFeatured

David French and the Revolutionary Style in Conservative Journalism

One of the greatest temptations facing illiberal conservatives is the choice to take up illicit techniques to promote Christian ends.

Susannah Black RobertsPoliticsEthics

We'll make that great heart what we want it to be. - Radio Free Thulcandra

Just throwing this up here for future reference, after thinking and writing a bit about about Margaret Sanger’s intense Lothrop Stoddard fangirling, and the eugenicist origins of Planned Parenthood: “Man has got to take charge of Man. That means, remember, […]

James ClarkPoliticsFeatured

Natural Law and the Prospects of Persuasion - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

When American evangelicals began to earnestly engage in conventional politics in the 1950s, a problem emerged. As David L. Weeks put it in a 2001 article, “Evangelicals have never developed a coherent and compelling political philosophy. Instead, they have relied […]