ArticlesI write about theology, politics, and place and how the three are interrelated. Contact Me 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. Bad Readers and Their Twitter Swarms A brief explainer on some common media tactics deployed by the neo-fundamentalists and post-evangelicals. Augustine and the Order of Love On the bad reading habits of Christian nationalists The Point of Church Isn’t to Make You Feel Whole Notes on how to be part of an ecclesial tradition The Limits of Willpower Why a naked public square leaves us all vulnerable under technopoly. Evangelicals, Reformed Catholicism, Ctd. More on reformed catholicity and a rebirthed American Mainline. The End of Evangelicalism and Possibility of Reformed Catholicism Explaining why evangelicalism is over and why we should build something different to replace it. I Think We Should Stop Shrinking Back Shrinking back from the full implications of the Christian message is a serious mistake. Remembering a Kind Man My personal memories of Tim Keller In Memoriam: Tim Keller An obituary for Tim Keller 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. 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. A Church That Can’t Exist in the World What Scott Clark gets wrong about the Evangel presbytery overture to GA The Therapeutic, Ctd. More questions and observations regarding the triumph of the therapeutic. 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. 1 2 3 … 6 Next » Read my blog at Mere Orthodoxy