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MERE ORTHODOXY
Book Excerpt: Either Way, We’ll Be All Right by Eric Tonjes. The cross is not simply about rescue but also about restoration. The cross is not primarily about escape from some future punishment but rather about healing our relationship with God. THE SIX WAY FRACTURING OF EVANGELICALISM As I have surveyed the evangelical landscape and discussed with pastors all around the country, evangelicalism seems to be fracturing into at least 6 different subgroups. Three of those groups (#s1-3) still have at least some connectivity to evangelicalism and the other three have cut ties (#s 4-6): Neo-Fundamentalist Evangelical – Neo THAT OTHERS MAY LIVE: FETAL CELL LINES AND VACCINE The world breathed a collective sigh of relief at news that multiple vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 were found to be effective. No sooner had this news reached us before there was a moral greaseball gumming up THE ANTI-SEMITISM OF G.K. CHESTERTON The anti-Semitism is easy to excise from his arguments when it’s explicit. It’s harder to excise the spirit that leads to it — the suspicion of the alien, the extreme localism, the favoring of national instinct over rational argument, the distaste for “parasitic” middlemen, and the preference for the simple organ-grinding music ofthe
NATIONALISM FOR A MULTI-TRIBAL PEOPLE An American nationalism that celebrates events, ideas, and traditions without a historical context that understands and addresses what these events, ideas, and traditions mean for all tribes of the American nation will be terribly impoverished and unable to overcome the charge of racism appended to it. The Israelite nation included traditionsTIMON CLINE
Timon Cline is a graduate of Rutgers Law School, Westminster Theological Seminary, and Wright State University. His writing has appeared at National Review, American Spectator, Aero Magazine, American Greatness, and New Discourses, among others. He writes regularly at Conciliar Post and Modern Reformation and blogs atPatheos as The
SEX, SUBMISSION, AND EVANGELICALS: DOUG WILSON'S Evangelicals have been beset by another controversy, and this one’s a doozy. Jared Wilson was attempting to critique Fifty Shades of Grey, a book that I have no plans to read ever. But the bit he excerpted from Doug Wilson to make his point was, to put it THE EVANGELICAL INNOVATORS C. S. LEWIS WARNED US ABOUT The Evangelical Innovators C. S. Lewis Warned Us About. In 1943, C. S. Lewis published The Abolition of Man in an attempt to warn the world about the Innovators, educators who were corrupting the minds of children, turning them into “men without chests.”. If Lewis were to write again in 2019, he would find a formidable set of newInnovators
JOSEPH MINICH
Joseph Minich lives in Texas with his wife (Rebecca) and four children (Samuel, Truman, Felix, and Ruby). He recently graduated from Reformed Theological Seminary (D.C. Campus) and is pursuing a Ph.D in intellectual history at the University of Texas at Dallas. All Posts. Bible Featured Theology and Practice. ON FAUSTIAN CHRISTIANITY: A FRAGMENT On Faustian Christianity: a fragment. 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 preview of coming attractions. Even orthodox Christians have often presented limits, the need forMERE ORTHODOXY
Book Excerpt: Either Way, We’ll Be All Right by Eric Tonjes. The cross is not simply about rescue but also about restoration. The cross is not primarily about escape from some future punishment but rather about healing our relationship with God. THE SIX WAY FRACTURING OF EVANGELICALISM As I have surveyed the evangelical landscape and discussed with pastors all around the country, evangelicalism seems to be fracturing into at least 6 different subgroups. Three of those groups (#s1-3) still have at least some connectivity to evangelicalism and the other three have cut ties (#s 4-6): Neo-Fundamentalist Evangelical – Neo THAT OTHERS MAY LIVE: FETAL CELL LINES AND VACCINE The world breathed a collective sigh of relief at news that multiple vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 were found to be effective. No sooner had this news reached us before there was a moral greaseball gumming up THE ANTI-SEMITISM OF G.K. CHESTERTON The anti-Semitism is easy to excise from his arguments when it’s explicit. It’s harder to excise the spirit that leads to it — the suspicion of the alien, the extreme localism, the favoring of national instinct over rational argument, the distaste for “parasitic” middlemen, and the preference for the simple organ-grinding music ofthe
NATIONALISM FOR A MULTI-TRIBAL PEOPLE An American nationalism that celebrates events, ideas, and traditions without a historical context that understands and addresses what these events, ideas, and traditions mean for all tribes of the American nation will be terribly impoverished and unable to overcome the charge of racism appended to it. The Israelite nation included traditionsTIMON CLINE
Timon Cline is a graduate of Rutgers Law School, Westminster Theological Seminary, and Wright State University. His writing has appeared at National Review, American Spectator, Aero Magazine, American Greatness, and New Discourses, among others. He writes regularly at Conciliar Post and Modern Reformation and blogs atPatheos as The
SEX, SUBMISSION, AND EVANGELICALS: DOUG WILSON'S Evangelicals have been beset by another controversy, and this one’s a doozy. Jared Wilson was attempting to critique Fifty Shades of Grey, a book that I have no plans to read ever. But the bit he excerpted from Doug Wilson to make his point was, to put it THE EVANGELICAL INNOVATORS C. S. LEWIS WARNED US ABOUT The Evangelical Innovators C. S. Lewis Warned Us About. In 1943, C. S. Lewis published The Abolition of Man in an attempt to warn the world about the Innovators, educators who were corrupting the minds of children, turning them into “men without chests.”. If Lewis were to write again in 2019, he would find a formidable set of newInnovators
JOSEPH MINICH
Joseph Minich lives in Texas with his wife (Rebecca) and four children (Samuel, Truman, Felix, and Ruby). He recently graduated from Reformed Theological Seminary (D.C. Campus) and is pursuing a Ph.D in intellectual history at the University of Texas at Dallas. All Posts. Bible Featured Theology and Practice. ON FAUSTIAN CHRISTIANITY: A FRAGMENT On Faustian Christianity: a fragment. 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 preview of coming attractions. Even orthodox Christians have often presented limits, the need forTHIN DISCIPLESHIP
Footnotes. See Andrew Walls’ discussion of “the indigenizing principle” and “the pilgrim principle” in The Modern Missionary Movement in Christian History (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1996), 3-15.; In this article, we are focusing on dimension within the horizontal axis of discipleship; much more could be said about the vertical or God-focused axis of discipleship. BEATITUDES: “PURE IN HEART” Many blessings are promised to the ones named in the Beatitudes. But the pure in heart are told that they will “see God.” That is an amazing promise, indeed!CLASH OF IDOLS
Clash of Idols. The connection between political life and idolatry will not be evident to everyone, but it definitely exists, especially within the various ideological visions vying for influence in the corridors of power. An idol is a surrogate god—something BOOK EXCERPT: EITHER WAY, WE'LL BE ALL RIGHT BY ERIC Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy and author of "In Search of the Common Good: Christian Fidelity in a Fractured World." He is a 2010 graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he studied English and History. TO SEE GOD IN THE DARK We fix our eyes on Jesus, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, the Word made flesh, the light of the world who shines in the darkness — for the darkness has not overcome it. The penultimate act of Lent is the stripping of the altar on Maundy Thursday. LikewiseLent
QANON AND THE CHURCH QAnon and The Church. Matt, Derek, and Alastair sit down to discuss why people are attracted to conspiracy theories. Listen in to hear the difference between credulity and conspiracy, why fringe groups matter, and how to handle those in the church CRITICAL RACE THEORY ISN'T A THREAT FOR PRESBYTERIANS The broader evangelical world is currently in turmoil over how to evaluate Critical Race Theory. In fact, six Southern Baptist seminary presidents signed a statement declaring Critical Race Theory to be incompatible to the non-binding doctrinal standards of their denomination.. Because the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) is a confessional denomination, such a statement, or counter 7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE EVANGELICAL DEEP STATE By Susannah Black, Matt Loftus, and Jake Meador. 2017 was the year of the deep state, a year when the inner workings of the American system were exposed to the world and we realized that what we thought was a government of the people, by the THEOLOGY AND PRACTICE ARCHIVES Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture. Culture, politics, and religion for those who love words. A THEOLOGY OF FACES: NOTES ON THE COSTS OF MASKING Joshua R. Farris is the Executive Director of Alpine Christian School. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Bristol, UK. He was the Chester and Margaret Paluch Professor at Mundelein Seminary, University of Saint Mary of the Lake; a part-time Lecturer at Auburn University, Montgomery; a Visiting Fellow at The Creation Project, Carl F.H. Henry at TEDS; and Assistant Professor of Theology atMERE ORTHODOXY
Book Excerpt: Either Way, We’ll Be All Right by Eric Tonjes. The cross is not simply about rescue but also about restoration. The cross is not primarily about escape from some future punishment but rather about healing our relationship with God. THE SIX WAY FRACTURING OF EVANGELICALISM As I have surveyed the evangelical landscape and discussed with pastors all around the country, evangelicalism seems to be fracturing into at least 6 different subgroups. Three of those groups (#s1-3) still have at least some connectivity to evangelicalism and the other three have cut ties (#s 4-6): Neo-Fundamentalist Evangelical – Neo THAT OTHERS MAY LIVE: FETAL CELL LINES AND VACCINE The world breathed a collective sigh of relief at news that multiple vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 were found to be effective. No sooner had this news reached us before there was a moral greaseball gumming up THE ANTI-SEMITISM OF G.K. CHESTERTON The anti-Semitism is easy to excise from his arguments when it’s explicit. It’s harder to excise the spirit that leads to it — the suspicion of the alien, the extreme localism, the favoring of national instinct over rational argument, the distaste for “parasitic” middlemen, and the preference for the simple organ-grinding music ofthe
NATIONALISM FOR A MULTI-TRIBAL PEOPLE An American nationalism that celebrates events, ideas, and traditions without a historical context that understands and addresses what these events, ideas, and traditions mean for all tribes of the American nation will be terribly impoverished and unable to overcome the charge of racism appended to it. The Israelite nation included traditionsTIMON CLINE
Timon Cline is a graduate of Rutgers Law School, Westminster Theological Seminary, and Wright State University. His writing has appeared at National Review, American Spectator, Aero Magazine, American Greatness, and New Discourses, among others. He writes regularly at Conciliar Post and Modern Reformation and blogs atPatheos as The
SEX, SUBMISSION, AND EVANGELICALS: DOUG WILSON'S Evangelicals have been beset by another controversy, and this one’s a doozy. Jared Wilson was attempting to critique Fifty Shades of Grey, a book that I have no plans to read ever. But the bit he excerpted from Doug Wilson to make his point was, to put it THE EVANGELICAL INNOVATORS C. S. LEWIS WARNED US ABOUT The Evangelical Innovators C. S. Lewis Warned Us About. In 1943, C. S. Lewis published The Abolition of Man in an attempt to warn the world about the Innovators, educators who were corrupting the minds of children, turning them into “men without chests.”. If Lewis were to write again in 2019, he would find a formidable set of newInnovators
JOSEPH MINICH
Joseph Minich lives in Texas with his wife (Rebecca) and four children (Samuel, Truman, Felix, and Ruby). He recently graduated from Reformed Theological Seminary (D.C. Campus) and is pursuing a Ph.D in intellectual history at the University of Texas at Dallas. All Posts. Bible Featured Theology and Practice. ON FAUSTIAN CHRISTIANITY: A FRAGMENT On Faustian Christianity: a fragment. 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 preview of coming attractions. Even orthodox Christians have often presented limits, the need forMERE ORTHODOXY
Book Excerpt: Either Way, We’ll Be All Right by Eric Tonjes. The cross is not simply about rescue but also about restoration. The cross is not primarily about escape from some future punishment but rather about healing our relationship with God. THE SIX WAY FRACTURING OF EVANGELICALISM As I have surveyed the evangelical landscape and discussed with pastors all around the country, evangelicalism seems to be fracturing into at least 6 different subgroups. Three of those groups (#s1-3) still have at least some connectivity to evangelicalism and the other three have cut ties (#s 4-6): Neo-Fundamentalist Evangelical – Neo THAT OTHERS MAY LIVE: FETAL CELL LINES AND VACCINE The world breathed a collective sigh of relief at news that multiple vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 were found to be effective. No sooner had this news reached us before there was a moral greaseball gumming up THE ANTI-SEMITISM OF G.K. CHESTERTON The anti-Semitism is easy to excise from his arguments when it’s explicit. It’s harder to excise the spirit that leads to it — the suspicion of the alien, the extreme localism, the favoring of national instinct over rational argument, the distaste for “parasitic” middlemen, and the preference for the simple organ-grinding music ofthe
NATIONALISM FOR A MULTI-TRIBAL PEOPLE An American nationalism that celebrates events, ideas, and traditions without a historical context that understands and addresses what these events, ideas, and traditions mean for all tribes of the American nation will be terribly impoverished and unable to overcome the charge of racism appended to it. The Israelite nation included traditionsTIMON CLINE
Timon Cline is a graduate of Rutgers Law School, Westminster Theological Seminary, and Wright State University. His writing has appeared at National Review, American Spectator, Aero Magazine, American Greatness, and New Discourses, among others. He writes regularly at Conciliar Post and Modern Reformation and blogs atPatheos as The
SEX, SUBMISSION, AND EVANGELICALS: DOUG WILSON'S Evangelicals have been beset by another controversy, and this one’s a doozy. Jared Wilson was attempting to critique Fifty Shades of Grey, a book that I have no plans to read ever. But the bit he excerpted from Doug Wilson to make his point was, to put it THE EVANGELICAL INNOVATORS C. S. LEWIS WARNED US ABOUT The Evangelical Innovators C. S. Lewis Warned Us About. In 1943, C. S. Lewis published The Abolition of Man in an attempt to warn the world about the Innovators, educators who were corrupting the minds of children, turning them into “men without chests.”. If Lewis were to write again in 2019, he would find a formidable set of newInnovators
JOSEPH MINICH
Joseph Minich lives in Texas with his wife (Rebecca) and four children (Samuel, Truman, Felix, and Ruby). He recently graduated from Reformed Theological Seminary (D.C. Campus) and is pursuing a Ph.D in intellectual history at the University of Texas at Dallas. All Posts. Bible Featured Theology and Practice. ON FAUSTIAN CHRISTIANITY: A FRAGMENT On Faustian Christianity: a fragment. 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 preview of coming attractions. Even orthodox Christians have often presented limits, the need forTHIN DISCIPLESHIP
Footnotes. See Andrew Walls’ discussion of “the indigenizing principle” and “the pilgrim principle” in The Modern Missionary Movement in Christian History (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1996), 3-15.; In this article, we are focusing on dimension within the horizontal axis of discipleship; much more could be said about the vertical or God-focused axis of discipleship. BEATITUDES: “PURE IN HEART” Many blessings are promised to the ones named in the Beatitudes. But the pure in heart are told that they will “see God.” That is an amazing promise, indeed!CLASH OF IDOLS
Clash of Idols. The connection between political life and idolatry will not be evident to everyone, but it definitely exists, especially within the various ideological visions vying for influence in the corridors of power. An idol is a surrogate god—something BOOK EXCERPT: EITHER WAY, WE'LL BE ALL RIGHT BY ERIC Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy and author of "In Search of the Common Good: Christian Fidelity in a Fractured World." He is a 2010 graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he studied English and History. TO SEE GOD IN THE DARK We fix our eyes on Jesus, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, the Word made flesh, the light of the world who shines in the darkness — for the darkness has not overcome it. The penultimate act of Lent is the stripping of the altar on Maundy Thursday. LikewiseLent
QANON AND THE CHURCH QAnon and The Church. Matt, Derek, and Alastair sit down to discuss why people are attracted to conspiracy theories. Listen in to hear the difference between credulity and conspiracy, why fringe groups matter, and how to handle those in the church CRITICAL RACE THEORY ISN'T A THREAT FOR PRESBYTERIANS The broader evangelical world is currently in turmoil over how to evaluate Critical Race Theory. In fact, six Southern Baptist seminary presidents signed a statement declaring Critical Race Theory to be incompatible to the non-binding doctrinal standards of their denomination.. Because the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) is a confessional denomination, such a statement, or counter 7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE EVANGELICAL DEEP STATE By Susannah Black, Matt Loftus, and Jake Meador. 2017 was the year of the deep state, a year when the inner workings of the American system were exposed to the world and we realized that what we thought was a government of the people, by the THEOLOGY AND PRACTICE ARCHIVES Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture. Culture, politics, and religion for those who love words. A THEOLOGY OF FACES: NOTES ON THE COSTS OF MASKING Joshua R. Farris is the Executive Director of Alpine Christian School. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Bristol, UK. He was the Chester and Margaret Paluch Professor at Mundelein Seminary, University of Saint Mary of the Lake; a part-time Lecturer at Auburn University, Montgomery; a Visiting Fellow at The Creation Project, Carl F.H. Henry at TEDS; and Assistant Professor of Theology atMERE ORTHODOXY
Book Excerpt: Either Way, We’ll Be All Right by Eric Tonjes. The cross is not simply about rescue but also about restoration. The cross is not primarily about escape from some future punishment but rather about healing our relationship with God. THE SIX WAY FRACTURING OF EVANGELICALISM As I have surveyed the evangelical landscape and discussed with pastors all around the country, evangelicalism seems to be fracturing into at least 6 different subgroups. Three of those groups (#s1-3) still have at least some connectivity to evangelicalism and the other three have cut ties (#s 4-6): Neo-Fundamentalist Evangelical – Neo THAT OTHERS MAY LIVE: FETAL CELL LINES AND VACCINE The world breathed a collective sigh of relief at news that multiple vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 were found to be effective. No sooner had this news reached us before there was a moral greaseball gumming up THE ANTI-SEMITISM OF G.K. CHESTERTON The anti-Semitism is easy to excise from his arguments when it’s explicit. It’s harder to excise the spirit that leads to it — the suspicion of the alien, the extreme localism, the favoring of national instinct over rational argument, the distaste for “parasitic” middlemen, and the preference for the simple organ-grinding music ofthe
NATIONALISM FOR A MULTI-TRIBAL PEOPLE An American nationalism that celebrates events, ideas, and traditions without a historical context that understands and addresses what these events, ideas, and traditions mean for all tribes of the American nation will be terribly impoverished and unable to overcome the charge of racism appended to it. The Israelite nation included traditionsTIMON CLINE
Timon Cline is a graduate of Rutgers Law School, Westminster Theological Seminary, and Wright State University. His writing has appeared at National Review, American Spectator, Aero Magazine, American Greatness, and New Discourses, among others. He writes regularly at Conciliar Post and Modern Reformation and blogs atPatheos as The
SEX, SUBMISSION, AND EVANGELICALS: DOUG WILSON'S Evangelicals have been beset by another controversy, and this one’s a doozy. Jared Wilson was attempting to critique Fifty Shades of Grey, a book that I have no plans to read ever. But the bit he excerpted from Doug Wilson to make his point was, to put it THE EVANGELICAL INNOVATORS C. S. LEWIS WARNED US ABOUT The Evangelical Innovators C. S. Lewis Warned Us About. In 1943, C. S. Lewis published The Abolition of Man in an attempt to warn the world about the Innovators, educators who were corrupting the minds of children, turning them into “men without chests.”. If Lewis were to write again in 2019, he would find a formidable set of newInnovators
JOSEPH MINICH
Joseph Minich lives in Texas with his wife (Rebecca) and four children (Samuel, Truman, Felix, and Ruby). He recently graduated from Reformed Theological Seminary (D.C. Campus) and is pursuing a Ph.D in intellectual history at the University of Texas at Dallas. All Posts. Bible Featured Theology and Practice. SEEING JACK: THE PRODIGAL IN MARILYNNE ROBINSON'S "GILEAD" Ames is a “father” in two senses. On the one hand, he has a complicated relationship with his best friend’s son, John “Jack” Ames Boughton, who was named after him (“a godson, more or less,” p. 104). Jack represents the prodigal. On the other, Ames also has a seven-year-old son from a second marriage (having been widowed andMERE ORTHODOXY
Book Excerpt: Either Way, We’ll Be All Right by Eric Tonjes. The cross is not simply about rescue but also about restoration. The cross is not primarily about escape from some future punishment but rather about healing our relationship with God. THE SIX WAY FRACTURING OF EVANGELICALISM As I have surveyed the evangelical landscape and discussed with pastors all around the country, evangelicalism seems to be fracturing into at least 6 different subgroups. Three of those groups (#s1-3) still have at least some connectivity to evangelicalism and the other three have cut ties (#s 4-6): Neo-Fundamentalist Evangelical – Neo THAT OTHERS MAY LIVE: FETAL CELL LINES AND VACCINE The world breathed a collective sigh of relief at news that multiple vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 were found to be effective. No sooner had this news reached us before there was a moral greaseball gumming up THE ANTI-SEMITISM OF G.K. CHESTERTON The anti-Semitism is easy to excise from his arguments when it’s explicit. It’s harder to excise the spirit that leads to it — the suspicion of the alien, the extreme localism, the favoring of national instinct over rational argument, the distaste for “parasitic” middlemen, and the preference for the simple organ-grinding music ofthe
NATIONALISM FOR A MULTI-TRIBAL PEOPLE An American nationalism that celebrates events, ideas, and traditions without a historical context that understands and addresses what these events, ideas, and traditions mean for all tribes of the American nation will be terribly impoverished and unable to overcome the charge of racism appended to it. The Israelite nation included traditionsTIMON CLINE
Timon Cline is a graduate of Rutgers Law School, Westminster Theological Seminary, and Wright State University. His writing has appeared at National Review, American Spectator, Aero Magazine, American Greatness, and New Discourses, among others. He writes regularly at Conciliar Post and Modern Reformation and blogs atPatheos as The
SEX, SUBMISSION, AND EVANGELICALS: DOUG WILSON'S Evangelicals have been beset by another controversy, and this one’s a doozy. Jared Wilson was attempting to critique Fifty Shades of Grey, a book that I have no plans to read ever. But the bit he excerpted from Doug Wilson to make his point was, to put it THE EVANGELICAL INNOVATORS C. S. LEWIS WARNED US ABOUT The Evangelical Innovators C. S. Lewis Warned Us About. In 1943, C. S. Lewis published The Abolition of Man in an attempt to warn the world about the Innovators, educators who were corrupting the minds of children, turning them into “men without chests.”. If Lewis were to write again in 2019, he would find a formidable set of newInnovators
JOSEPH MINICH
Joseph Minich lives in Texas with his wife (Rebecca) and four children (Samuel, Truman, Felix, and Ruby). He recently graduated from Reformed Theological Seminary (D.C. Campus) and is pursuing a Ph.D in intellectual history at the University of Texas at Dallas. All Posts. Bible Featured Theology and Practice. SEEING JACK: THE PRODIGAL IN MARILYNNE ROBINSON'S "GILEAD" Ames is a “father” in two senses. On the one hand, he has a complicated relationship with his best friend’s son, John “Jack” Ames Boughton, who was named after him (“a godson, more or less,” p. 104). Jack represents the prodigal. On the other, Ames also has a seven-year-old son from a second marriage (having been widowed andTHIN DISCIPLESHIP
Footnotes. See Andrew Walls’ discussion of “the indigenizing principle” and “the pilgrim principle” in The Modern Missionary Movement in Christian History (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1996), 3-15.; In this article, we are focusing on dimension within the horizontal axis of discipleship; much more could be said about the vertical or God-focused axis of discipleship. BEATITUDES: “PURE IN HEART” Many blessings are promised to the ones named in the Beatitudes. But the pure in heart are told that they will “see God.” That is an amazing promise, indeed!CLASH OF IDOLS
Clash of Idols. The connection between political life and idolatry will not be evident to everyone, but it definitely exists, especially within the various ideological visions vying for influence in the corridors of power. An idol is a surrogate god—something BOOK REVIEW: BOOMERS BY HELEN ANDREWS Book Review: Boomers by Helen Andrews. Helen Andrews. Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster. New York: Sentinel, 2021. 238 pp. $27. In autumn of 1912, the British journalist Lytton Strachey declared to Virginia Woolf his opinion of the Victorians: they “seem to me a set of mouth bungled hypocrites,”he wrote.
BOB STEVENSON AND JOSH FENSKA Bob Stevenson is a husband, father of four and serves as Lead Pastor of Village Baptist Church. He has an MDiv from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and is pursuing graduate education in sociology atLoyola.
QANON AND THE CHURCH QAnon and The Church. Matt, Derek, and Alastair sit down to discuss why people are attracted to conspiracy theories. Listen in to hear the difference between credulity and conspiracy, why fringe groups matter, and how to handle those in the church CRITICAL RACE THEORY ISN'T A THREAT FOR PRESBYTERIANS The broader evangelical world is currently in turmoil over how to evaluate Critical Race Theory. In fact, six Southern Baptist seminary presidents signed a statement declaring Critical Race Theory to be incompatible to the non-binding doctrinal standards of their denomination.. Because the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) is a confessional denomination, such a statement, or counter 7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE EVANGELICAL DEEP STATE By Susannah Black, Matt Loftus, and Jake Meador. 2017 was the year of the deep state, a year when the inner workings of the American system were exposed to the world and we realized that what we thought was a government of the people, by the THEOLOGY AND PRACTICE ARCHIVES Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture. Culture, politics, and religion for those who love words. BETRAYING TYNDALE: NOTES AGAINST PROPAGANDA Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy and author of "In Search of the Common Good: Christian Fidelity in a Fractured World." He is a 2010 graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he studied English and History.MERE ORTHODOXY
Book Excerpt: Either Way, We’ll Be All Right by Eric Tonjes. The cross is not simply about rescue but also about restoration. The cross is not primarily about escape from some future punishment but rather about healing our relationship with God. THE SIX WAY FRACTURING OF EVANGELICALISM As I have surveyed the evangelical landscape and discussed with pastors all around the country, evangelicalism seems to be fracturing into at least 6 different subgroups. Three of those groups (#s1-3) still have at least some connectivity to evangelicalism and the other three have cut ties (#s 4-6): Neo-Fundamentalist Evangelical – Neo THAT OTHERS MAY LIVE: FETAL CELL LINES AND VACCINE The world breathed a collective sigh of relief at news that multiple vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 were found to be effective. No sooner had this news reached us before there was a moral greaseball gumming up CRITICAL RACE THEORY ISN'T A THREAT FOR PRESBYTERIANS The broader evangelical world is currently in turmoil over how to evaluate Critical Race Theory. In fact, six Southern Baptist seminary presidents signed a statement declaring Critical Race Theory to be incompatible to the non-binding doctrinal standards of their denomination.. Because the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) is a confessional denomination, such a statement, or counter THE ANTI-SEMITISM OF G.K. CHESTERTON The anti-Semitism is easy to excise from his arguments when it’s explicit. It’s harder to excise the spirit that leads to it — the suspicion of the alien, the extreme localism, the favoring of national instinct over rational argument, the distaste for “parasitic” middlemen, and the preference for the simple organ-grinding music ofthe
(HOW) ARE EVANGELICALS GNOSTIC? h-c • 5 years ago. Interesting how us "evangelicals" are the gnostics when the devilish cathorthodox churches worship the "mother of god", just as the gnostics exalted and worshipped "sophia", the mother of the demiurge, and the asceticism of monasticism is an echo of the gnostic rejection of even the permitted pleasures of thematerial world.
TIMON CLINE
Timon Cline is a graduate of Rutgers Law School, Westminster Theological Seminary, and Wright State University. His writing has appeared at National Review, American Spectator, Aero Magazine, American Greatness, and New Discourses, among others. He writes regularly at Conciliar Post and Modern Reformation and blogs atPatheos as The
REVIEWING ANTHONY ESOLEN'S "OUT OF THE ASHES Reviewing Anthony Esolen’s “Out of the Ashes”. I suspect the highest complement you can give a book written by a professor is that, upon finishing the book, you find yourself wishing that you could take a class with him. As I finished Anthony Esolen’s Out of the Ashes my immediate response was precisely that—I wish there were a way I ON WHETHER CHRISTIANS SHOULD KEEP SUPPORTING WORLD VISION World Vision USA has altered their employee handbook to allow them to hire members of committed same-sex unions.. As I noted on Twitter, I find their rationale incoherent, but not terribly surprising.. Of the various threads I could take up, though, I want to focus on the decision which many conscientious Christians who deeply disagree with World Vision USA’s decision now face: should they "YOU DON'T HAVE A SOUL": C.S. LEWIS NEVER SAID IT Many who have suspected the Lewis reference to be apocryphal credit the quotation to A Canticle For Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller’s 1959 science fiction novel, in which one of the characters asserts, “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”. The mystery does not end there, however.MERE ORTHODOXY
Book Excerpt: Either Way, We’ll Be All Right by Eric Tonjes. The cross is not simply about rescue but also about restoration. The cross is not primarily about escape from some future punishment but rather about healing our relationship with God. THE SIX WAY FRACTURING OF EVANGELICALISM As I have surveyed the evangelical landscape and discussed with pastors all around the country, evangelicalism seems to be fracturing into at least 6 different subgroups. Three of those groups (#s1-3) still have at least some connectivity to evangelicalism and the other three have cut ties (#s 4-6): Neo-Fundamentalist Evangelical – Neo THAT OTHERS MAY LIVE: FETAL CELL LINES AND VACCINE The world breathed a collective sigh of relief at news that multiple vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 were found to be effective. No sooner had this news reached us before there was a moral greaseball gumming up CRITICAL RACE THEORY ISN'T A THREAT FOR PRESBYTERIANS The broader evangelical world is currently in turmoil over how to evaluate Critical Race Theory. In fact, six Southern Baptist seminary presidents signed a statement declaring Critical Race Theory to be incompatible to the non-binding doctrinal standards of their denomination.. Because the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) is a confessional denomination, such a statement, or counter THE ANTI-SEMITISM OF G.K. CHESTERTON The anti-Semitism is easy to excise from his arguments when it’s explicit. It’s harder to excise the spirit that leads to it — the suspicion of the alien, the extreme localism, the favoring of national instinct over rational argument, the distaste for “parasitic” middlemen, and the preference for the simple organ-grinding music ofthe
(HOW) ARE EVANGELICALS GNOSTIC? h-c • 5 years ago. Interesting how us "evangelicals" are the gnostics when the devilish cathorthodox churches worship the "mother of god", just as the gnostics exalted and worshipped "sophia", the mother of the demiurge, and the asceticism of monasticism is an echo of the gnostic rejection of even the permitted pleasures of thematerial world.
TIMON CLINE
Timon Cline is a graduate of Rutgers Law School, Westminster Theological Seminary, and Wright State University. His writing has appeared at National Review, American Spectator, Aero Magazine, American Greatness, and New Discourses, among others. He writes regularly at Conciliar Post and Modern Reformation and blogs atPatheos as The
REVIEWING ANTHONY ESOLEN'S "OUT OF THE ASHES Reviewing Anthony Esolen’s “Out of the Ashes”. I suspect the highest complement you can give a book written by a professor is that, upon finishing the book, you find yourself wishing that you could take a class with him. As I finished Anthony Esolen’s Out of the Ashes my immediate response was precisely that—I wish there were a way I ON WHETHER CHRISTIANS SHOULD KEEP SUPPORTING WORLD VISION World Vision USA has altered their employee handbook to allow them to hire members of committed same-sex unions.. As I noted on Twitter, I find their rationale incoherent, but not terribly surprising.. Of the various threads I could take up, though, I want to focus on the decision which many conscientious Christians who deeply disagree with World Vision USA’s decision now face: should they "YOU DON'T HAVE A SOUL": C.S. LEWIS NEVER SAID IT Many who have suspected the Lewis reference to be apocryphal credit the quotation to A Canticle For Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller’s 1959 science fiction novel, in which one of the characters asserts, “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”. The mystery does not end there, however.THIN DISCIPLESHIP
1 day ago · Footnotes. See Andrew Walls’ discussion of “the indigenizing principle” and “the pilgrim principle” in The Modern Missionary Movement in Christian History (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1996), 3-15.; In this article, we are focusing on dimension within the horizontal axis of discipleship; much more could be said about the vertical or God-focused axis of discipleship. BEATITUDES: “PURE IN HEART” Many blessings are promised to the ones named in the Beatitudes. But the pure in heart are told that they will “see God.” That is an amazing promise, indeed! THE REAL PRESENCE AND THE PRESENCE OF REALITY This lecture was originally delivered at Hillsdale College. A PDF version of this essay is also available.. Last year, one of Hillsdale’s most famous alumni, Peter Leithart, wrote an essay called “Why Protestants Can’t Write” that began with the line “Blame it on Marburg.” The 1529 Colloquy of Marburg, of course, was the point at which Zwingli and Luther failed to agree on the BOB STEVENSON AND JOSH FENSKA Bob Stevenson is a husband, father of four and serves as Lead Pastor of Village Baptist Church. He has an MDiv from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and is pursuing graduate education in sociology atLoyola.
LIVING TO WORK
Work is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker’s faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.”. Two things are interesting here. First, Sayers speaks indefense of
BOOK REVIEW: BOOMERS BY HELEN ANDREWS Book Review: Boomers by Helen Andrews. Helen Andrews. Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster. New York: Sentinel, 2021. 238 pp. $27. In autumn of 1912, the British journalist Lytton Strachey declared to Virginia Woolf his opinion of the Victorians: they “seem to me a set of mouth bungled hypocrites,”he wrote.
7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE EVANGELICAL DEEP STATE By Susannah Black, Matt Loftus, and Jake Meador. 2017 was the year of the deep state, a year when the inner workings of the American system were exposed to the world and we realized that what we thought was a government of the people, by the THEOLOGY AND PRACTICE ARCHIVES Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture. Culture, politics, and religion for those who love words. QUIZ: ARE YOU AN EVANGELICAL? It's no surprise that a) no one knows what an evangelical is, and b) everyone wants to define it. To fix this problem, the writers of Mere Orthodoxy have created a quiz to help people determine if they are, in fact, evangelical. Start Quiz. Question. Your answer: Correct answer:Next.
FINDING THE GOSPEL IN GAME OF THRONES Unless you’re living under a rock (or the proverbial bushel), it’s impossible to have missed the phenomenon that is Game of Thrones. Part fantasy epic, part prestige television, its controversial subject matter has made it a bit of a touchyMERE ORTHODOXY
Betraying Tyndale: Notes Against Propaganda. I think this essay is maybe about my parents, particularly my mother, but it’s also about what they taught me and how that relates to the turmoil currently roiling America’s public life. THAT OTHERS MAY LIVE: FETAL CELL LINES AND VACCINE The world breathed a collective sigh of relief at news that multiple vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 were found to be effective. No sooner had this news reached us before there was a moral greaseball gumming up BOB STEVENSON AND JOSH FENSKA Bob Stevenson is a husband, father of four and serves as Lead Pastor of Village Baptist Church. He has an MDiv from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and is pursuing graduate education in sociology atLoyola.
CRITICAL RACE THEORY ISN'T A THREAT FOR PRESBYTERIANS The broader evangelical world is currently in turmoil over how to evaluate Critical Race Theory. In fact, six Southern Baptist seminary presidents signed a statement declaring Critical Race Theory to be incompatible to the non-binding doctrinal standards of their denomination.. Because the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) is a confessional denomination, such a statement, or counter THE ANTI-SEMITISM OF G.K. CHESTERTON The anti-Semitism is easy to excise from his arguments when it’s explicit. It’s harder to excise the spirit that leads to it — the suspicion of the alien, the extreme localism, the favoring of national instinct over rational argument, the distaste for “parasitic” middlemen, and the preference for the simple organ-grinding music ofthe
TIMON CLINE
Timon Cline is a graduate of Rutgers Law School, Westminster Theological Seminary, and Wright State University. His writing has appeared at National Review, American Spectator, Aero Magazine, American Greatness, and New Discourses, among others. He writes regularly at Conciliar Post and Modern Reformation and blogs atPatheos as The
REVIEWING ANTHONY ESOLEN'S "OUT OF THE ASHES Reviewing Anthony Esolen’s “Out of the Ashes”. I suspect the highest complement you can give a book written by a professor is that, upon finishing the book, you find yourself wishing that you could take a class with him. As I finished Anthony Esolen’s Out of the Ashes my immediate response was precisely that—I wish there were a way I ON WHETHER CHRISTIANS SHOULD KEEP SUPPORTING WORLD VISION World Vision USA has altered their employee handbook to allow them to hire members of committed same-sex unions.. As I noted on Twitter, I find their rationale incoherent, but not terribly surprising.. Of the various threads I could take up, though, I want to focus on the decision which many conscientious Christians who deeply disagree with World Vision USA’s decision now face: should they QUIZ: ARE YOU AN EVANGELICAL? It's no surprise that a) no one knows what an evangelical is, and b) everyone wants to define it. To fix this problem, the writers of Mere Orthodoxy have created a quiz to help people determine if they are, in fact, evangelical. Start Quiz. Question. Your answer: Correct answer:Next.
"YOU DON'T HAVE A SOUL": C.S. LEWIS NEVER SAID IT Many who have suspected the Lewis reference to be apocryphal credit the quotation to A Canticle For Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller’s 1959 science fiction novel, in which one of the characters asserts, “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”. The mystery does not end there, however.MERE ORTHODOXY
Betraying Tyndale: Notes Against Propaganda. I think this essay is maybe about my parents, particularly my mother, but it’s also about what they taught me and how that relates to the turmoil currently roiling America’s public life. THAT OTHERS MAY LIVE: FETAL CELL LINES AND VACCINE The world breathed a collective sigh of relief at news that multiple vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 were found to be effective. No sooner had this news reached us before there was a moral greaseball gumming up BOB STEVENSON AND JOSH FENSKA Bob Stevenson is a husband, father of four and serves as Lead Pastor of Village Baptist Church. He has an MDiv from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and is pursuing graduate education in sociology atLoyola.
CRITICAL RACE THEORY ISN'T A THREAT FOR PRESBYTERIANS The broader evangelical world is currently in turmoil over how to evaluate Critical Race Theory. In fact, six Southern Baptist seminary presidents signed a statement declaring Critical Race Theory to be incompatible to the non-binding doctrinal standards of their denomination.. Because the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) is a confessional denomination, such a statement, or counter THE ANTI-SEMITISM OF G.K. CHESTERTON The anti-Semitism is easy to excise from his arguments when it’s explicit. It’s harder to excise the spirit that leads to it — the suspicion of the alien, the extreme localism, the favoring of national instinct over rational argument, the distaste for “parasitic” middlemen, and the preference for the simple organ-grinding music ofthe
TIMON CLINE
Timon Cline is a graduate of Rutgers Law School, Westminster Theological Seminary, and Wright State University. His writing has appeared at National Review, American Spectator, Aero Magazine, American Greatness, and New Discourses, among others. He writes regularly at Conciliar Post and Modern Reformation and blogs atPatheos as The
REVIEWING ANTHONY ESOLEN'S "OUT OF THE ASHES Reviewing Anthony Esolen’s “Out of the Ashes”. I suspect the highest complement you can give a book written by a professor is that, upon finishing the book, you find yourself wishing that you could take a class with him. As I finished Anthony Esolen’s Out of the Ashes my immediate response was precisely that—I wish there were a way I ON WHETHER CHRISTIANS SHOULD KEEP SUPPORTING WORLD VISION World Vision USA has altered their employee handbook to allow them to hire members of committed same-sex unions.. As I noted on Twitter, I find their rationale incoherent, but not terribly surprising.. Of the various threads I could take up, though, I want to focus on the decision which many conscientious Christians who deeply disagree with World Vision USA’s decision now face: should they QUIZ: ARE YOU AN EVANGELICAL? It's no surprise that a) no one knows what an evangelical is, and b) everyone wants to define it. To fix this problem, the writers of Mere Orthodoxy have created a quiz to help people determine if they are, in fact, evangelical. Start Quiz. Question. Your answer: Correct answer:Next.
"YOU DON'T HAVE A SOUL": C.S. LEWIS NEVER SAID IT Many who have suspected the Lewis reference to be apocryphal credit the quotation to A Canticle For Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller’s 1959 science fiction novel, in which one of the characters asserts, “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”. The mystery does not end there, however.THIN DISCIPLESHIP
1 day ago · Footnotes. See Andrew Walls’ discussion of “the indigenizing principle” and “the pilgrim principle” in The Modern Missionary Movement in Christian History (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1996), 3-15.; In this article, we are focusing on dimension within the horizontal axis of discipleship; much more could be said about the vertical or God-focused axis of discipleship. THE SIX WAY FRACTURING OF EVANGELICALISM Written with Skyler Flowers Colin Kaepernick. “Grab them by the p ” Confederate monuments. George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery. COVID – serious problem or overblown? Trump, Biden, other, or abstain? January 6th, 2021. The last few years have highlighted BOOK REVIEW: BOOMERS BY HELEN ANDREWS Book Review: Boomers by Helen Andrews. Helen Andrews. Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster. New York: Sentinel, 2021. 238 pp. $27. In autumn of 1912, the British journalist Lytton Strachey declared to Virginia Woolf his opinion of the Victorians: they “seem to me a set of mouth bungled hypocrites,”he wrote.
LIVING TO WORK
Work is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker’s faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.”. Two things are interesting here. First, Sayers speaks indefense of
BEATITUDES: “PURE IN HEART” Many blessings are promised to the ones named in the Beatitudes. But the pure in heart are told that they will “see God.” That is an amazing promise, indeed! THE REAL PRESENCE AND THE PRESENCE OF REALITY This lecture was originally delivered at Hillsdale College. A PDF version of this essay is also available.. Last year, one of Hillsdale’s most famous alumni, Peter Leithart, wrote an essay called “Why Protestants Can’t Write” that began with the line “Blame it on Marburg.” The 1529 Colloquy of Marburg, of course, was the point at which Zwingli and Luther failed to agree on the 7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE EVANGELICAL DEEP STATE By Susannah Black, Matt Loftus, and Jake Meador. 2017 was the year of the deep state, a year when the inner workings of the American system were exposed to the world and we realized that what we thought was a government of the people, by the BOOK EXCERPT: EITHER WAY, WE'LL BE ALL RIGHT BY ERIC Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy and author of "In Search of the Common Good: Christian Fidelity in a Fractured World." He is a 2010 graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he studied English and History. BOB STEVENSON AND JOSH FENSKA Bob Stevenson is a husband, father of four and serves as Lead Pastor of Village Baptist Church. He has an MDiv from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and is pursuing graduate education in sociology atLoyola.
THEOLOGY AND PRACTICE ARCHIVES Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture. Culture, politics, and religion for those who love words.MERE ORTHODOXY
Antisemitism, with Rabbi Dr. Ari Lamm. Rabbi Dr. Ari Lamm is the founder of The Joshua Project. He is one of the youngest leaders of a major Jewish organization in the U.S., serving as chief executive of Bnai Zion. Dr. Lamm joins the full cast of THAT OTHERS MAY LIVE: FETAL CELL LINES AND VACCINE The world breathed a collective sigh of relief at news that multiple vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 were found to be effective. No sooner had this news reached us before there was a moral greaseball gumming up THE ANTI-SEMITISM OF G.K. CHESTERTON The anti-Semitism is easy to excise from his arguments when it’s explicit. It’s harder to excise the spirit that leads to it — the suspicion of the alien, the extreme localism, the favoring of national instinct over rational argument, the distaste for “parasitic” middlemen, and the preference for the simple organ-grinding music ofthe
NATIONALISM FOR A MULTI-TRIBAL PEOPLE An American nationalism that celebrates events, ideas, and traditions without a historical context that understands and addresses what these events, ideas, and traditions mean for all tribes of the American nation will be terribly impoverished and unable to overcome the charge of racism appended to it. The Israelite nation included traditions THE EVANGELICAL INNOVATORS C. S. LEWIS WARNED US ABOUT The Evangelical Innovators C. S. Lewis Warned Us About. In 1943, C. S. Lewis published The Abolition of Man in an attempt to warn the world about the Innovators, educators who were corrupting the minds of children, turning them into “men without chests.”. If Lewis were to write again in 2019, he would find a formidable set of newInnovators
QUIZ: ARE YOU AN EVANGELICAL? It's no surprise that a) no one knows what an evangelical is, and b) everyone wants to define it. To fix this problem, the writers of Mere Orthodoxy have created a quiz to help people determine if they are, in fact, evangelical. Start Quiz. Question. Your answer: Correct answer:Next.
JOSEPH MINICH
Joseph Minich lives in Texas with his wife (Rebecca) and four children (Samuel, Truman, Felix, and Ruby). He recently graduated from Reformed Theological Seminary (D.C. Campus) and is pursuing a Ph.D in intellectual history at the University of Texas at Dallas. All Posts. Bible Featured Theology and Practice. SEEING JACK: THE PRODIGAL IN MARILYNNE ROBINSON'S "GILEAD" Ames is a “father” in two senses. On the one hand, he has a complicated relationship with his best friend’s son, John “Jack” Ames Boughton, who was named after him (“a godson, more or less,” p. 104). Jack represents the prodigal. On the other, Ames also has a seven-year-old son from a second marriage (having been widowed andSUSANNAH BLACK
Susannah Black received her BA from Amherst College and her MA from Boston University. She is an editor at Mere Orthodoxy, Plough Quarterly, The Davenant Institute’s journal Ad Fontes, and Fare Forward. Previously, she was associate editor at Providence. ON FAUSTIAN CHRISTIANITY: A FRAGMENT On Faustian Christianity: a fragment. 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 preview of coming attractions. Even orthodox Christians have often presented limits, the need forMERE ORTHODOXY
Antisemitism, with Rabbi Dr. Ari Lamm. Rabbi Dr. Ari Lamm is the founder of The Joshua Project. He is one of the youngest leaders of a major Jewish organization in the U.S., serving as chief executive of Bnai Zion. Dr. Lamm joins the full cast of THAT OTHERS MAY LIVE: FETAL CELL LINES AND VACCINE The world breathed a collective sigh of relief at news that multiple vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 were found to be effective. No sooner had this news reached us before there was a moral greaseball gumming up THE ANTI-SEMITISM OF G.K. CHESTERTON The anti-Semitism is easy to excise from his arguments when it’s explicit. It’s harder to excise the spirit that leads to it — the suspicion of the alien, the extreme localism, the favoring of national instinct over rational argument, the distaste for “parasitic” middlemen, and the preference for the simple organ-grinding music ofthe
NATIONALISM FOR A MULTI-TRIBAL PEOPLE An American nationalism that celebrates events, ideas, and traditions without a historical context that understands and addresses what these events, ideas, and traditions mean for all tribes of the American nation will be terribly impoverished and unable to overcome the charge of racism appended to it. The Israelite nation included traditions THE EVANGELICAL INNOVATORS C. S. LEWIS WARNED US ABOUT The Evangelical Innovators C. S. Lewis Warned Us About. In 1943, C. S. Lewis published The Abolition of Man in an attempt to warn the world about the Innovators, educators who were corrupting the minds of children, turning them into “men without chests.”. If Lewis were to write again in 2019, he would find a formidable set of newInnovators
QUIZ: ARE YOU AN EVANGELICAL? It's no surprise that a) no one knows what an evangelical is, and b) everyone wants to define it. To fix this problem, the writers of Mere Orthodoxy have created a quiz to help people determine if they are, in fact, evangelical. Start Quiz. Question. Your answer: Correct answer:Next.
JOSEPH MINICH
Joseph Minich lives in Texas with his wife (Rebecca) and four children (Samuel, Truman, Felix, and Ruby). He recently graduated from Reformed Theological Seminary (D.C. Campus) and is pursuing a Ph.D in intellectual history at the University of Texas at Dallas. All Posts. Bible Featured Theology and Practice. SEEING JACK: THE PRODIGAL IN MARILYNNE ROBINSON'S "GILEAD" Ames is a “father” in two senses. On the one hand, he has a complicated relationship with his best friend’s son, John “Jack” Ames Boughton, who was named after him (“a godson, more or less,” p. 104). Jack represents the prodigal. On the other, Ames also has a seven-year-old son from a second marriage (having been widowed andSUSANNAH BLACK
Susannah Black received her BA from Amherst College and her MA from Boston University. She is an editor at Mere Orthodoxy, Plough Quarterly, The Davenant Institute’s journal Ad Fontes, and Fare Forward. Previously, she was associate editor at Providence. ON FAUSTIAN CHRISTIANITY: A FRAGMENT On Faustian Christianity: a fragment. 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 preview of coming attractions. Even orthodox Christians have often presented limits, the need forTHIN DISCIPLESHIP
10 hours ago · Footnotes. See Andrew Walls’ discussion of “the indigenizing principle” and “the pilgrim principle” in The Modern Missionary Movement in Christian History (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1996), 3-15.; In this article, we are focusing on dimension within the horizontal axis of discipleship; much more could be said about the vertical or God-focused axis of discipleship. THAT OTHERS MAY LIVE: FETAL CELL LINES AND VACCINE The world breathed a collective sigh of relief at news that multiple vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 were found to be effective. No sooner had this news reached us before there was a moral greaseball gumming up THE SIX WAY FRACTURING OF EVANGELICALISM Written with Skyler Flowers Colin Kaepernick. “Grab them by the p ” Confederate monuments. George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery. COVID – serious problem or overblown? Trump, Biden, other, or abstain? January 6th, 2021. The last few years have highlighted BOOK REVIEW: BOOMERS BY HELEN ANDREWS Book Review: Boomers by Helen Andrews. Helen Andrews. Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster. New York: Sentinel, 2021. 238 pp. $27. In autumn of 1912, the British journalist Lytton Strachey declared to Virginia Woolf his opinion of the Victorians: they “seem to me a set of mouth bungled hypocrites,”he wrote.
BEATITUDES: “PURE IN HEART” 1 day ago · Many blessings are promised to the ones named in the Beatitudes. But the pure in heart are told that they will “see God.” That is an amazing promise, indeed!CLASH OF IDOLS
Clash of Idols. The connection between political life and idolatry will not be evident to everyone, but it definitely exists, especially within the various ideological visions vying for influence in the corridors of power. An idol is a surrogate god—something QANON AND THE CHURCH QAnon and The Church. Matt, Derek, and Alastair sit down to discuss why people are attracted to conspiracy theories. Listen in to hear the difference between credulity and conspiracy, why fringe groups matter, and how to handle those in the church BOOK EXCERPT: EITHER WAY, WE'LL BE ALL RIGHT BY ERIC 1 day ago · Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy and author of "In Search of the Common Good: Christian Fidelity in a Fractured World." He is a 2010 graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he studied English and History.MICHAEL GRAHAM
Michael Graham is the executive producer and writer of As In Heaven and executive pastor at Orlando Grace Church (Acts 29). He received his MDiv at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando. THEOLOGY AND PRACTICE ARCHIVES Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture. Culture, politics, and religion for those who love words.MERE ORTHODOXY
Antisemitism, with Rabbi Dr. Ari Lamm. Rabbi Dr. Ari Lamm is the founder of The Joshua Project. He is one of the youngest leaders of a major Jewish organization in the U.S., serving as chief executive of Bnai Zion. Dr. Lamm joins the full cast of THE ETHICS OF JAYBER CROW The setting of the novel is mid 20th century small town Kentucky, particularly the small town of Port William. The novel’s narrator and protagonist, Jayber Crow, is a seminary dropout and barber who is in his early 40s and has been back in the Port William area for about 20 years. In the opening scenes of the novel, we meet a character who THE ANTI-SEMITISM OF G.K. CHESTERTON The anti-Semitism is easy to excise from his arguments when it’s explicit. It’s harder to excise the spirit that leads to it — the suspicion of the alien, the extreme localism, the favoring of national instinct over rational argument, the distaste for “parasitic” middlemen, and the preference for the simple organ-grinding music ofthe
NATIONALISM FOR A MULTI-TRIBAL PEOPLE An American nationalism that celebrates events, ideas, and traditions without a historical context that understands and addresses what these events, ideas, and traditions mean for all tribes of the American nation will be terribly impoverished and unable to overcome the charge of racism appended to it. The Israelite nation included traditions MISSIOLOGY AFTER LIBERALISM Missiology After Liberalism. Christians concerned with contextualizing the gospel (i.e. thinking and living missionally) should consider the liabilities of the culture and society they inhabit. The excesses and vulnerabilities of various cultures are places where the gospel should come to bear. In western democracies for example, the notion of QUIZ: ARE YOU AN EVANGELICAL? It's no surprise that a) no one knows what an evangelical is, and b) everyone wants to define it. To fix this problem, the writers of Mere Orthodoxy have created a quiz to help people determine if they are, in fact, evangelical. Start Quiz. Question. Your answer: Correct answer:Next.
REVIEWING ANTHONY ESOLEN'S "OUT OF THE ASHES Reviewing Anthony Esolen’s “Out of the Ashes”. I suspect the highest complement you can give a book written by a professor is that, upon finishing the book, you find yourself wishing that you could take a class with him. As I finished Anthony Esolen’s Out of the Ashes my immediate response was precisely that—I wish there were a way I ON WHETHER CHRISTIANS SHOULD KEEP SUPPORTING WORLD VISIONWORLD VISION CHARITY RATINGWORLD VISION CONTROVERSYWORLD VISION DONATIONWORLD VISION GOAT FRAUDWORLD VISION INTERNATIONAL SCANDALWORLD VISION SCAM World Vision USA has altered their employee handbook to allow them to hire members of committed same-sex unions.. As I noted on Twitter, I find their rationale incoherent, but not terribly surprising.. Of the various threads I could take up, though, I want to focus on the decision which many conscientious Christians who deeply disagree with World Vision USA’s decision now face: should theySUSANNAH BLACK
Susannah Black received her BA from Amherst College and her MA from Boston University. She is an editor at Mere Orthodoxy, Plough Quarterly, The Davenant Institute’s journal Ad Fontes, and Fare Forward. Previously, she was associate editor at Providence. "YOU DON'T HAVE A SOUL": C.S. LEWIS NEVER SAID ITC S LEWIS ATOMIC AGEC S LEWIS BIOGRAPHYC S LEWIS CHRISTIAN BOOKS Many who have suspected the Lewis reference to be apocryphal credit the quotation to A Canticle For Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller’s 1959 science fiction novel, in which one of the characters asserts, “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”. The mystery does not end there, however.MERE ORTHODOXY
Antisemitism, with Rabbi Dr. Ari Lamm. Rabbi Dr. Ari Lamm is the founder of The Joshua Project. He is one of the youngest leaders of a major Jewish organization in the U.S., serving as chief executive of Bnai Zion. Dr. Lamm joins the full cast of THE ETHICS OF JAYBER CROW The setting of the novel is mid 20th century small town Kentucky, particularly the small town of Port William. The novel’s narrator and protagonist, Jayber Crow, is a seminary dropout and barber who is in his early 40s and has been back in the Port William area for about 20 years. In the opening scenes of the novel, we meet a character who THE ANTI-SEMITISM OF G.K. CHESTERTON The anti-Semitism is easy to excise from his arguments when it’s explicit. It’s harder to excise the spirit that leads to it — the suspicion of the alien, the extreme localism, the favoring of national instinct over rational argument, the distaste for “parasitic” middlemen, and the preference for the simple organ-grinding music ofthe
NATIONALISM FOR A MULTI-TRIBAL PEOPLE An American nationalism that celebrates events, ideas, and traditions without a historical context that understands and addresses what these events, ideas, and traditions mean for all tribes of the American nation will be terribly impoverished and unable to overcome the charge of racism appended to it. The Israelite nation included traditions MISSIOLOGY AFTER LIBERALISM Missiology After Liberalism. Christians concerned with contextualizing the gospel (i.e. thinking and living missionally) should consider the liabilities of the culture and society they inhabit. The excesses and vulnerabilities of various cultures are places where the gospel should come to bear. In western democracies for example, the notion of QUIZ: ARE YOU AN EVANGELICAL? It's no surprise that a) no one knows what an evangelical is, and b) everyone wants to define it. To fix this problem, the writers of Mere Orthodoxy have created a quiz to help people determine if they are, in fact, evangelical. Start Quiz. Question. Your answer: Correct answer:Next.
REVIEWING ANTHONY ESOLEN'S "OUT OF THE ASHES Reviewing Anthony Esolen’s “Out of the Ashes”. I suspect the highest complement you can give a book written by a professor is that, upon finishing the book, you find yourself wishing that you could take a class with him. As I finished Anthony Esolen’s Out of the Ashes my immediate response was precisely that—I wish there were a way I ON WHETHER CHRISTIANS SHOULD KEEP SUPPORTING WORLD VISIONWORLD VISION CHARITY RATINGWORLD VISION CONTROVERSYWORLD VISION DONATIONWORLD VISION GOAT FRAUDWORLD VISION INTERNATIONAL SCANDALWORLD VISION SCAM World Vision USA has altered their employee handbook to allow them to hire members of committed same-sex unions.. As I noted on Twitter, I find their rationale incoherent, but not terribly surprising.. Of the various threads I could take up, though, I want to focus on the decision which many conscientious Christians who deeply disagree with World Vision USA’s decision now face: should theySUSANNAH BLACK
Susannah Black received her BA from Amherst College and her MA from Boston University. She is an editor at Mere Orthodoxy, Plough Quarterly, The Davenant Institute’s journal Ad Fontes, and Fare Forward. Previously, she was associate editor at Providence. "YOU DON'T HAVE A SOUL": C.S. LEWIS NEVER SAID ITC S LEWIS ATOMIC AGEC S LEWIS BIOGRAPHYC S LEWIS CHRISTIAN BOOKS Many who have suspected the Lewis reference to be apocryphal credit the quotation to A Canticle For Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller’s 1959 science fiction novel, in which one of the characters asserts, “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”. The mystery does not end there, however. BEATITUDES: “PURE IN HEART” 5 hours ago · Many blessings are promised to the ones named in the Beatitudes. But the pure in heart are told that they will “see God.” That is an amazing promise, indeed! THE SIX WAY FRACTURING OF EVANGELICALISM 1 day ago · Written with Skyler Flowers Colin Kaepernick. “Grab them by the p ” Confederate monuments. George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery. COVID – serious problem or overblown? Trump, Biden, other, or abstain? January 6th, 2021. The last few years havehighlighted
BOOK REVIEW: BOOMERS BY HELEN ANDREWS Book Review: Boomers by Helen Andrews. Helen Andrews. Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster. New York: Sentinel, 2021. 238 pp. $27. In autumn of 1912, the British journalist Lytton Strachey declared to Virginia Woolf his opinion of the Victorians: they “seem to me a set of mouth bungled hypocrites,”he wrote.
MISSIOLOGY AFTER LIBERALISM Missiology After Liberalism. Christians concerned with contextualizing the gospel (i.e. thinking and living missionally) should consider the liabilities of the culture and society they inhabit. The excesses and vulnerabilities of various cultures are places where the gospel should come to bear. In western democracies for example, the notion of CRITICAL RACE THEORY ISN'T A THREAT FOR PRESBYTERIANS The broader evangelical world is currently in turmoil over how to evaluate Critical Race Theory. In fact, six Southern Baptist seminary presidents signed a statement declaring Critical Race Theory to be incompatible to the non-binding doctrinal standards of their denomination.. Because the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) is a confessional denomination, such a statement, or counter THE CHURCH HAS ALWAYS KNOWN THEOLOGICAL CONTROVERSY God and his purposes for the Church are the same as they have always been. As the same hymn has it: The Church shall never perish! Her dear Lord, to defend, To guide, sustain, and cherish, Is with her to the end. Though there be those that hate her.MICHAEL GRAHAM
Michael Graham is the executive producer and writer of As In Heaven and executive pastor at Orlando Grace Church (Acts 29). He received his MDiv at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando.FACING THE GIANTS
So they made a second movie, Facing the Giants. The budget was $100,000, which is breathtakingly low for an average Hollywood film, so the production quality is still amaterish at points. The actors are all members of the Sherwood Baptist community. The design, set, lighting, etc. are all members of the community. PASSAGES: SEASON 1, EPISODE 10: WE BELIEVE IN ONE HOLY In the final articles of the Nicene Creed, we confess that “we believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life BOOK EXCERPT: EITHER WAY, WE'LL BE ALL RIGHT BY ERIC The cross is not simply about rescue but also about restoration. The cross is not primarily about escape from some future punishment but rather about healing our relationship with God. Christ’s death brings us back into communion with our Creator:MERE ORTHODOXY
Antisemitism, with Rabbi Dr. Ari Lamm. Rabbi Dr. Ari Lamm is the founder of The Joshua Project. He is one of the youngest leaders of a major Jewish organization in the U.S., serving as chief executive of Bnai Zion. Dr. Lamm joins the full cast of THE ETHICS OF JAYBER CROW The setting of the novel is mid 20th century small town Kentucky, particularly the small town of Port William. The novel’s narrator and protagonist, Jayber Crow, is a seminary dropout and barber who is in his early 40s and has been back in the Port William area for about 20 years. In the opening scenes of the novel, we meet a character who THE ANTI-SEMITISM OF G.K. CHESTERTON The anti-Semitism is easy to excise from his arguments when it’s explicit. It’s harder to excise the spirit that leads to it — the suspicion of the alien, the extreme localism, the favoring of national instinct over rational argument, the distaste for “parasitic” middlemen, and the preference for the simple organ-grinding music ofthe
NATIONALISM FOR A MULTI-TRIBAL PEOPLE An American nationalism that celebrates events, ideas, and traditions without a historical context that understands and addresses what these events, ideas, and traditions mean for all tribes of the American nation will be terribly impoverished and unable to overcome the charge of racism appended to it. The Israelite nation included traditions MISSIOLOGY AFTER LIBERALISM Missiology After Liberalism. Christians concerned with contextualizing the gospel (i.e. thinking and living missionally) should consider the liabilities of the culture and society they inhabit. The excesses and vulnerabilities of various cultures are places where the gospel should come to bear. In western democracies for example, the notion of QUIZ: ARE YOU AN EVANGELICAL? It's no surprise that a) no one knows what an evangelical is, and b) everyone wants to define it. To fix this problem, the writers of Mere Orthodoxy have created a quiz to help people determine if they are, in fact, evangelical. Start Quiz. Question. Your answer: Correct answer:Next.
REVIEWING ANTHONY ESOLEN'S "OUT OF THE ASHES Reviewing Anthony Esolen’s “Out of the Ashes”. I suspect the highest complement you can give a book written by a professor is that, upon finishing the book, you find yourself wishing that you could take a class with him. As I finished Anthony Esolen’s Out of the Ashes my immediate response was precisely that—I wish there were a way I ON WHETHER CHRISTIANS SHOULD KEEP SUPPORTING WORLD VISIONWORLD VISION CHARITY RATINGWORLD VISION CONTROVERSYWORLD VISION DONATIONWORLD VISION GOAT FRAUDWORLD VISION INTERNATIONAL SCANDALWORLD VISION SCAM World Vision USA has altered their employee handbook to allow them to hire members of committed same-sex unions.. As I noted on Twitter, I find their rationale incoherent, but not terribly surprising.. Of the various threads I could take up, though, I want to focus on the decision which many conscientious Christians who deeply disagree with World Vision USA’s decision now face: should theySUSANNAH BLACK
Susannah Black received her BA from Amherst College and her MA from Boston University. She is an editor at Mere Orthodoxy, Plough Quarterly, The Davenant Institute’s journal Ad Fontes, and Fare Forward. Previously, she was associate editor at Providence. "YOU DON'T HAVE A SOUL": C.S. LEWIS NEVER SAID ITC S LEWIS ATOMIC AGEC S LEWIS BIOGRAPHYC S LEWIS CHRISTIAN BOOKS Many who have suspected the Lewis reference to be apocryphal credit the quotation to A Canticle For Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller’s 1959 science fiction novel, in which one of the characters asserts, “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”. The mystery does not end there, however.MERE ORTHODOXY
Antisemitism, with Rabbi Dr. Ari Lamm. Rabbi Dr. Ari Lamm is the founder of The Joshua Project. He is one of the youngest leaders of a major Jewish organization in the U.S., serving as chief executive of Bnai Zion. Dr. Lamm joins the full cast of THE ETHICS OF JAYBER CROW The setting of the novel is mid 20th century small town Kentucky, particularly the small town of Port William. The novel’s narrator and protagonist, Jayber Crow, is a seminary dropout and barber who is in his early 40s and has been back in the Port William area for about 20 years. In the opening scenes of the novel, we meet a character who THE ANTI-SEMITISM OF G.K. CHESTERTON The anti-Semitism is easy to excise from his arguments when it’s explicit. It’s harder to excise the spirit that leads to it — the suspicion of the alien, the extreme localism, the favoring of national instinct over rational argument, the distaste for “parasitic” middlemen, and the preference for the simple organ-grinding music ofthe
NATIONALISM FOR A MULTI-TRIBAL PEOPLE An American nationalism that celebrates events, ideas, and traditions without a historical context that understands and addresses what these events, ideas, and traditions mean for all tribes of the American nation will be terribly impoverished and unable to overcome the charge of racism appended to it. The Israelite nation included traditions MISSIOLOGY AFTER LIBERALISM Missiology After Liberalism. Christians concerned with contextualizing the gospel (i.e. thinking and living missionally) should consider the liabilities of the culture and society they inhabit. The excesses and vulnerabilities of various cultures are places where the gospel should come to bear. In western democracies for example, the notion of QUIZ: ARE YOU AN EVANGELICAL? It's no surprise that a) no one knows what an evangelical is, and b) everyone wants to define it. To fix this problem, the writers of Mere Orthodoxy have created a quiz to help people determine if they are, in fact, evangelical. Start Quiz. Question. Your answer: Correct answer:Next.
REVIEWING ANTHONY ESOLEN'S "OUT OF THE ASHES Reviewing Anthony Esolen’s “Out of the Ashes”. I suspect the highest complement you can give a book written by a professor is that, upon finishing the book, you find yourself wishing that you could take a class with him. As I finished Anthony Esolen’s Out of the Ashes my immediate response was precisely that—I wish there were a way I ON WHETHER CHRISTIANS SHOULD KEEP SUPPORTING WORLD VISIONWORLD VISION CHARITY RATINGWORLD VISION CONTROVERSYWORLD VISION DONATIONWORLD VISION GOAT FRAUDWORLD VISION INTERNATIONAL SCANDALWORLD VISION SCAM World Vision USA has altered their employee handbook to allow them to hire members of committed same-sex unions.. As I noted on Twitter, I find their rationale incoherent, but not terribly surprising.. Of the various threads I could take up, though, I want to focus on the decision which many conscientious Christians who deeply disagree with World Vision USA’s decision now face: should theySUSANNAH BLACK
Susannah Black received her BA from Amherst College and her MA from Boston University. She is an editor at Mere Orthodoxy, Plough Quarterly, The Davenant Institute’s journal Ad Fontes, and Fare Forward. Previously, she was associate editor at Providence. "YOU DON'T HAVE A SOUL": C.S. LEWIS NEVER SAID ITC S LEWIS ATOMIC AGEC S LEWIS BIOGRAPHYC S LEWIS CHRISTIAN BOOKS Many who have suspected the Lewis reference to be apocryphal credit the quotation to A Canticle For Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller’s 1959 science fiction novel, in which one of the characters asserts, “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”. The mystery does not end there, however. BEATITUDES: “PURE IN HEART” 3 hours ago · Many blessings are promised to the ones named in the Beatitudes. But the pure in heart are told that they will “see God.” That is an amazing promise, indeed! THE SIX WAY FRACTURING OF EVANGELICALISM 1 day ago · Written with Skyler Flowers Colin Kaepernick. “Grab them by the p ” Confederate monuments. George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery. COVID – serious problem or overblown? Trump, Biden, other, or abstain? January 6th, 2021. The last few years havehighlighted
BOOK REVIEW: BOOMERS BY HELEN ANDREWS Book Review: Boomers by Helen Andrews. Helen Andrews. Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster. New York: Sentinel, 2021. 238 pp. $27. In autumn of 1912, the British journalist Lytton Strachey declared to Virginia Woolf his opinion of the Victorians: they “seem to me a set of mouth bungled hypocrites,”he wrote.
MISSIOLOGY AFTER LIBERALISM Missiology After Liberalism. Christians concerned with contextualizing the gospel (i.e. thinking and living missionally) should consider the liabilities of the culture and society they inhabit. The excesses and vulnerabilities of various cultures are places where the gospel should come to bear. In western democracies for example, the notion of CRITICAL RACE THEORY ISN'T A THREAT FOR PRESBYTERIANS The broader evangelical world is currently in turmoil over how to evaluate Critical Race Theory. In fact, six Southern Baptist seminary presidents signed a statement declaring Critical Race Theory to be incompatible to the non-binding doctrinal standards of their denomination.. Because the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) is a confessional denomination, such a statement, or counter THE CHURCH HAS ALWAYS KNOWN THEOLOGICAL CONTROVERSY God and his purposes for the Church are the same as they have always been. As the same hymn has it: The Church shall never perish! Her dear Lord, to defend, To guide, sustain, and cherish, Is with her to the end. Though there be those that hate her.MICHAEL GRAHAM
Michael Graham is the executive producer and writer of As In Heaven and executive pastor at Orlando Grace Church (Acts 29). He received his MDiv at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando.FACING THE GIANTS
So they made a second movie, Facing the Giants. The budget was $100,000, which is breathtakingly low for an average Hollywood film, so the production quality is still amaterish at points. The actors are all members of the Sherwood Baptist community. The design, set, lighting, etc. are all members of the community. PASSAGES: SEASON 1, EPISODE 10: WE BELIEVE IN ONE HOLY In the final articles of the Nicene Creed, we confess that “we believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life BOOK EXCERPT: EITHER WAY, WE'LL BE ALL RIGHT BY ERIC The cross is not simply about rescue but also about restoration. The cross is not primarily about escape from some future punishment but rather about healing our relationship with God. Christ’s death brings us back into communion with our Creator:__ Explore __ Close
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