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Mere Fidelity: The Incarnation
In the final show of 2016, Matt, Alastair, and Derek consider whether God would have become incarnate had Adam not sinned, and the value of thinking about such hypotheticals. Thanks to all of our...
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Mere Fidelity: Humble Roots, with Hannah Anderson
Welcome to Mere Fidelity, 2017! We are delighted to be back…but even more excited that Hannah Anderson joined us for this first episode of the new year to discuss her new book Humble Roots. Andrew...
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Mere Fidelity: Episode #100
When we started this here show, we weren’t sure that we would make it to episode 2–much less 100. We’re very grateful for your kind support and patronage the past few years. In this 100th episode, we...
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On the Executive Order Regarding Refugees
Over the weekend, I suggested that the text of the now infamous and widely criticized Executive Order on refugees was, as written, “neither insane nor obviously unChristian.” This was prompted by...
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Mere Fidelity: Silence, with Brett McCracken
In this episode, we discuss Martin Scorsese’s new film Silence, which is an adaptation of Shūsaku Endo’s book of the same name. Film critic Brett McCracken makes his Mere Fidelity debut; he reviewed...
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Mere Fidelity: Reviving the Worship Wars
In this episode of Mere Fidelity, we decide it’s time to revive the worship wars. If you like the show, please do leave us a review on iTunes. We are also available on Google Play. If you’re...
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Mere Fidelity: The Fractured Republic, with Yuval Levin
We are thrilled to have Yuval Levin join us to discuss his important book The Fractured Republic: Renewing America’s Social Contract in an Age of Individualism. Levin is widely regarded as one of the...
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Mere Fidelity: On Lent, with Steven Wedgeworth
In this latest episode of Mere Fidelity, we take up the question of Lent and individualism with Steven Wedgeworth, pastor of Christ Church Lakeland and writer at The Calvinist International. As with...
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The Religious Right Is Not a Subsidiary of the Alt-Right
In a recent essay for The New Republic, religion reporter Sarah Posner contends that the Religious Right has “effectively become a subsidiary of the alt-right, yoked to Trump’s white nationalist...
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Mere Fidelity: A Bible Study on Genesis 1
Alastair, Derek and Matt get together for a good ol’ fashioned Bible study on Genesis 1. If you like the show, please do leave us a review on iTunes. We are also available on Google Play. If you’re...
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Mere Fidelity: On Genesis 1, Part Two
We enjoyed our last Bible study on Genesis 1 so much that we decided to do it again. Listen in as Alastair, Matt and Andrew discuss the second half of the chapter. If you like the show, please do...
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Mere Fidelity: The Resurrection of Politics
Matt, Derek, and Mere-O’s own Jake Meador discuss the implications of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ for political theology. (Note: Matt posted the wrong episode before, so please shame him...
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Mere Fidelity: The Benedict Option, with Rod Dreher
Rod Dreher’s Benedict Option has been one of the most talked about books of 2017, and his blog is one of the most popular socially conservative blogs in the country. Now, the man himself joins us to...
View ArticleA Brief Commendation: The Addicts Next Door
I cannot remember reading an essay that has moved me as much as Margaret Talbot’s devastating New Yorker piece on our opioid crisis. The prose is mostly unadorned, because it can be. Many of the...
View ArticleOrthodoxy, Sex Ethics, and the Meaning of Nature
James K.A. Smith’s recent criticism of those who have made a particular sexual ethic a criterion of ‘orthodoxy’ has generated a minor kerfuffle, as these things go. My friends and Mere Fidelity...
View ArticleWhy I Won’t Sign the Nashville Statement
The ongoing dispute over the shape and meaning of “evangelicalism’s” understanding of sexual ethics took a sharper, more institutionally focused form yesterday. The CBMW convened what they are calling...
View ArticleMere Fidelity: Orthodoxy and Sexual Ethics
And…we’re back. After a long summer break, we have returned. We skip all the niceties and how are yous and plunge in to recent discussions about the relationship between ‘orthodoxy’ and sexual ethics....
View ArticleEvangelicalism’s ‘Flight 93’ Moment: Reflections on the Nashville Statement
What does the Nashville Statement mean? And to whom should we look to help us understand? Conservative evangelicals have been gripped by such questions since the CBMW released the statement two weeks...
View ArticleMere Fidelity: The Value of Controversy
On this week’s show, Alastair, Matt and Derek consider the nature, ethics, and benefits of theological controversies. We can neither confirm nor deny that recent events played a role in helping us...
View ArticleMere Fidelity: Augustine’s *Confessions,* Book I
This week Alastair, Derek, and Matt take up and read Book 1 of Augustine’s Confessions. If you’d like to read along–which we encourage you to do–Henry Chadwick’s translation is available widely at a...
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