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More than Hearts and Minds: A Critique of Political Anti-nomianism
What’s our doctrine of creation to do with culture, and culture to do with legislation? That’s the puzzle I tried to work out over at The Gospel Coalition earlier this week: At the heart of creation...
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Christianity in Crisis: The Resurrection and Andrew Sullivan
The response to Andrew Sullivan’s cover story on the crisis of Christianity has surprised me, if only because his appeal seems to go no deeper than rehashing the sort of anti-creedal theological...
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Who is Jesus? A Discussion on Sullivan’s Essay
I participated in a semi-f0rmal Twitter chat this evening with Fred Sanders on Andrew Sullivan’s Newsweek essay. It was a fun exercise and an interesting discussion and I am grateful to Biola for...
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Culture Wars and the Future of the Evangelical Political Witness
Rachel Held Evans struck a chord with her breathless reminder that when it comes to the culture wars, young evangelicals are just so over that. There’s a lot to agree with in her post and it’s hard...
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Post-Partisan Evangelicals and the Culture Wars: An Attempt at Clarification
David French has posted an “open letter” to post-partisan evangelicals that’s bound to get a lot of attention because, well, that’s what “open letters” are designed to do. The whole piece tells his...
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Every Foreign Land their Fatherland, Yet Every Fatherland a Foreign Land
U.S Postage Stamp, 1957 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Another Fourth of July has come and gone, and many American Christians have thanked God for placing them within the borders of the United States. The...
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Between Babel and Beast: Reviewing Peter Leithart’s Political Theology (Pt. 1)
Editor’s note: I am pleased to publish this two part review by Brian Auten of Peter Leithart’s new book. Brian is a reader and friend of mine and this review is both substantive and important. I...
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Between Babel and Beast: Reviewing Peter Leithart’s Political Theology (Pt. 2)
Editor’s note: I am pleased to publish this two part review (see part one) by Brian Auten of Peter Leithart’s new book. Brian is a reader and friend of mine and this review is both substantive and...
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Silence and the Passion: On CNN, Louie Giglio, and Me
Over the weekend, I wrote this at CNN about the Louie Giglio debacle: The news that Louie Giglio is no longer going to give the benediction at President Obama’s inauguration sent shock waves around...
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Martin Luther on the Passions of Evangelical Politics
Now that we have a bit of distance from the Giglio controversy, it’s worth stepping back and thinking through this with a bit more depth: how should Christians speak in public when those in...
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Two scholars debate violence and the nation state
In the past month there has been a fascinating exchange going on between occasional Mere O contributor Brad Littlejohn and DePaul’s William Cavanaugh. It started with this critique of Cavanaugh’s work...
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A Radical Anthropology and Imagining our Political Future
James Poulos, one of my favorite political writers, has been hammering away recently at our need to frame our political conversations around anthropology and imagination first and policy specifics...
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The Joy of Evangelical Political Life: Russell Moore in First Things
Russell Moore’s latest for First Things is up. And it’s a fun read: Indeed, often the “broader” agenda items reinforce their social conservatism. Evangelicals working with the poor see the...
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The Politics of Silence: Questions for Peter Leithart
It was just over a year ago that Louie Giglio withdrew from participating in President Obama’s second inauguration because of the uproar surrounding his twenty-year-old comments on homosexuality....
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On Religious Liberty: A Dialogue with Sarah Posner
I don’t agree with Sarah Posner on much of anything, but she is fun to talk to. As we both followed the recent scrums about the nature and extent of religious liberty with considerable interest, we...
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Hesitation about Rights and the Need for a Mutual Defense
Adam and Eve made for themselves fig-leaves, but God made for them coats of skins. If justice is the coat of skin with which God has clothed vulnerable and mutually aggressive postlapsarian humanity,...
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In Defence of War: A Reflection
In Defence of War is thoroughly researched, clearly and elegantly written, and masterfully argued. The task I have been given of responding is therefore harder than it might seem: as I find Professor...
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Reopening the Question of China and Hobby Lobby
We’ve been through this once already, but since my friend Jonathan Merritt’s latest piece dredging up the charge of hypocrisy against the Greens because they do business in China has been sent around,...
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The Relationship Between American Political Thought and Biblical Interpretation
Tim Scheiderer is a freelance writer and Southern Seminary graduate. He lives in metro Washington, DC. Culture is a force comprised of traditions curated and subsequently cherished in the hearts of...
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Reviewing John Wilsey’s “American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion”
I’m pleased to publish this guest review today by Hillsdale College visiting professor Dr. Miles Smith. You can learn more about Dr. Smith from his bio below this post. You can also follow him on...
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