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Tim MiloschPoliticsFeatured

Finding Wisdom in the House of Mourning - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

By Tim Milosch There is deep significance in how a society treats its dead. If history is to be considered, state funerals have played a significant role in public life. Western history and thought has found some of its most […]

Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsFeaturedEvangelicalism

The Impossibility of an Evangelical Conservatism | Mere Orthodoxy

Can American evangelicalism be a conservative movement? If by 'conservative' we mean 'able to conserve the permanent things,' then the answer is, "no."

Tim MiloschPoliticsFeatured

Asynchronous Citizens: Addressing Flaws in Digital Citizenship - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The 2011 Pew Research Center study, “Teens, Kindness and Cruelty on Social Network Sites” is one of many evaluating the experience of the young on social media. Given ongoing concerns about the effects of social media on young people, the […]

Matthew LoftusPoliticsFeatured

Ten Theses on the Bible, Poverty, and Justice | Mere Orthodoxy

Political societies should not simply secure certain negative rights for their members, but should also make it easier for people to be good.

Matthew LoftusPoliticsFeatured

Defending the Vulnerable Requires More Than Centrist Justices

Freedom Road's call to "pause" the culture war until a moderate justice can be found to replace Anthony Kennedy actually reinforces culture war norms.

Guest WriterPoliticsFeaturedChurch

Religious Liberty and Religious Establishment: A Reply to Trabbic

The Catholic argument for a confessional state is a compelling one. Unfortunately, the same premises also support religious coercion.

Brandon McGinleyPoliticsFeatured

Stop Making Hospitality Complicated | Mere Orthodoxy

If we think "hospitality" means "entertaining" and "serving gourmet meals in an immaculately clean house," we'll probably never practice actual hospitality.

Matthew LoftusPoliticsFeatured

Stay Woke, Cultivate Virtue - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The new synthetic morality fails precisely because it offers no account of personal formation, no means of shaping an individual person toward virtue.

Matthew LoftusPoliticsFeaturedEvangelicalism

On Powers, Principalities, and Politics | Mere Orthodoxy

What do the prophets say about those who align themselves with God's enemies? And what do they say about those who persist in doing so for an extended time?

Berny BelvederePoliticsFeatured

In the Center There Is Joy | Mere Orthodoxy

Berny Belvedere argues that the great need of the moment is a new kind of centrism that can freely draw on the wisdom of both left and right.

Jake MeadorPoliticsHistory

W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk--Chapter 3

In chapter three, Du Bois turns his attention to Booker T. Washington and offers a measured yet devastating critique of Washington's project.

Jake MeadorPoliticsHistoryEvangelicalism

On Presidential Politics and Evangelical Cultural Clout

The electoral success of the Republican party has convinced some that evangelicalism is still culturally ascendant. That idea is almost entirely mistaken.