Articles

I write about theology, politics, and place and how the three are interrelated.

The Misunderstood Reason Millions of Americans Stopped Going to Church

An exploration of an under-discussed reason that many Americans have left the church in the past 25 years.
The Atlantic

Bad Readers and Their Twitter Swarms

A brief explainer on some common media tactics deployed by the neo-fundamentalists and post-evangelicals.
Mere Orthodoxy

Augustine and the Order of Love

On the bad reading habits of Christian nationalists
Mere Orthodoxy

The Point of Church Isn’t to Make You Feel Whole

Notes on how to be part of an ecclesial tradition
Mere Orthodoxy

The Limits of Willpower

Why a naked public square leaves us all vulnerable under technopoly.
Mere Orthodoxy

Evangelicals, Reformed Catholicism, Ctd.

More on reformed catholicity and a rebirthed American Mainline.
Mere Orthodoxy

The End of Evangelicalism and Possibility of Reformed Catholicism

Explaining why evangelicalism is over and why we should build something different to replace it.
Mere Orthodoxy

I Think We Should Stop Shrinking Back

Shrinking back from the full implications of the Christian message is a serious mistake.
Mere Orthodoxy

Remembering a Kind Man

My personal memories of Tim Keller
Mere Orthodoxy

In Memoriam: Tim Keller

An obituary for Tim Keller
Mere Orthodoxy

Church as NGO

One of the chief problems for us today is simply learning again how to name the church and her relationship to public life.
Mere Orthodoxy

Safety

Using "safety" or "credibility" as metrics for judging Christian speech is, at best, far too simplistic a method. But it can be much worse than that.
Mere Orthodoxy

A Church That Can’t Exist in the World

What Scott Clark gets wrong about the Evangel presbytery overture to GA
Mere Orthodoxy

The Therapeutic, Ctd.

More questions and observations regarding the triumph of the therapeutic.
Mere Orthodoxy

Mandalorian Dogma

The early episodes of the latest season of the Mandalorian suggest a very different portrayal of religious zealots than what is common in American media.
Mere Orthodoxy