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Podcast: The Post-Election Show
On this week’s episode of Mere Fidelity, Derek, Matt, Andrew, and I discuss the US election and its aftermath. I’ve written quite a lot over the last few weeks on issues related to the election. Here are a few posts: 10 … Continue reading
The De-Condensation of Humanity
The Ribbonfarm blog has always been one of my preferred locations for imaginative societal analysis online. What Ribbonfarm offers, perhaps more than any other blog out there, is close attention to calibrating the lenses through which we can analyse the … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Ethics, Sex and Sexuality, Society
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A Crisis of Discourse—Part 2: A Problem of Gender
An Elephant in the Room In my previous post (which I have renamed so that this flows more clearly from it), I observed a growing crisis for progressivism, as people across the political spectrum are rejecting its form of discourse. … Continue reading
Posted in Controversies, Culture, Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, Sex and Sexuality, Society
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Can Social Justice Be Distinguished From Social Justice Ideology?
In response to my recent posts, a couple of commentators were concerned that the exact target of my criticisms was unclear, and that some readers might be left with the impression that I was challenging the cause of social justice … Continue reading
Posted in Controversies, Culture, Ethics, Politics, Society, Theological
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Podcast: Richard Hooker
For some time I’ve wanted to discuss Richard Hooker on the podcast, not least because we seldom speak about the continuing importance of figures from church history on Mere Fidelity. This week, while the other crew members were away, I … Continue reading
Posted in Church History, Controversies, Culture, Ethics, Podcasts, Politics, Scripture, Society, The Church, Theological
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A Crisis of Discourse—Part 1: Cracks in the Progressive Left
I’ve renamed this post so that the post that follows will represent a smoother transition from it, but no content has been changed. My Pre-Election Reflections Over the last week or two, in the run up to the American election, … Continue reading
Posted in Controversies, Culture, In the News, Politics, Society, Theological
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In Which A Man Explains Things
The following is a comment I posted on an online friend’s blog. I posted a comment pushing back against the idea that Trump supporters were largely driven by misogyny and racism, suggesting that a more charitable and optimistic construction of … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Ethics, Politics, Society
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Lessons from the Collapse of American Protestantism
I’ve written a piece for The Gospel Coalition on the collapse of American Protestantism and what we should be braced for in the future. It’s also noteworthy that almost all the Christian intellectuals Jacobs discusses, whether historic or contemporary, belonged … Continue reading
Posted in Church History, Culture, Guest Post, Politics, The Church
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Further Thoughts: How Social Justice Ideology Fuels Racism and Sexism
The video above comes with a huge NSFW warning. However, it is a very important window into the deeply unsettling and unpleasant phenomenon of anti-social justice shamelessness, which has primarily arisen as an anarchic response to social justice’s overreach. The … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Ethics, Politics, Society
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How Social Justice Ideology Gave Us Donald Trump
I didn’t sleep at all last night. As the election results came in, I had a familiar feeling of growing concern, the same feeling I had experienced watching the results of Brexit. However, this time around, I was more than … Continue reading
Posted in Controversies, Culture, Economics, Ethics, Politics, Society, Theological
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