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Podcasts: Do Calvinists Worship Another God? And What About Aliens?
This week I was on two podcasts. First, Andrew Wilson, Alastair Roberts, and I recorded our second ever episode of Casting Across the Pond. Inspired by Fred Sanders we discuss the ever popular “the God...
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That One Time I Was On the White Horse Inn: Sustainable Discipleship
Michael Horton and I are #besties. True Story: I had the privilege of sitting in with the great Dr. Michael Horton on the White Horse Inn radio show a little while back. They’ve been going through a...
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Mere Fidelity is Finally on iTunes
Hey everybody, I’m pleased to announce that our podcast has finally been approved by iTunes and is now up for streaming, downloading, and so forth, with the four previous episodes up for grabs. You can...
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Mere Fidelity Podcast: What is a Person?
Matt, Alastair, and I discuss Oliver O’Donovan’s once more. We kick it off with this quote and keep chatting from there: “The embryo is of interest to us because it is human; it is ‘ourselves’. On...
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Mere Fidelity: Cultural Presuppositions and the Practices that Embody Them
In this chat Matt, Alastair, and I discuss our common cultural presuppositions and the particular actions which might embed them. We begin with the issue of in-vitro fertilization, but we move on to...
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Mere Fidelity: Living Through the Church’s Exile
There’s been a lot of chatter about the need to “counter-cultural” Christians in order to prepare for the coming exile of the Church in North America. We decided to take up that subject in this week’s...
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Mere Fidelity: Rejoicing in Lament with Todd Billings
A couple weeks ago my review of Todd Billings’ excellent new book Rejoicing in Lament went up. This week I have the pleasure sharing a podcast we recorded with him chatting about it. Todd is rich in...
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Mere Fidelity: War, Nonviolence, etc. w/ guest Preston Sprinkle
This week we chatted about just war theory and nonviolence/pacifism. Is is ever okay for Christians to go to war? What’s the difference between police activity and the law-keeping function of the State...
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What do we learn of the Cross in the Gospels? (Mere Fidelity Podcast)
This week on Mere Fidelity, the boys and I discuss Jesus’ atoning work on the Cross as it is displayed and uniquely narrated in the Gospels. In other words, what specifically do the Gospel writers tell...
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Mere Fidelity: The Resurrection, Ethics, and Natural Law
Given that it’s the week after Easter, Alastair, Matt, and I decided to ask “What has the resurrection to do with how we think about ethics?” as well as the limits and possibilities of natural law...
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Mere Fidelity: After Obergefell
In June this year, the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage across the country in the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges case. Across the nation there were varieties of reactions ranging from, many...
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Mere Fidelity: Intersex and Sexual Difference w/ Megan DeFranza
This week usual crew is joined by Megan K. DeFranza, author of Sex Difference in Christian Theology: Male, Female, and Intersex in the Image of God. Matthew Lee Anderson reviewed the book recently for...
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Mere Fidelity: Curiosity
Last week I wrote a piece exploring and summarizing John Webster’s little essay, “Curiosity.” Then we decided on Mere Fidelity to have a chat about what curiosity is and isn’t and how it plays into...
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Willimon: 12 Disciplines for How to Listen to a Sermon for Sanctification
We have a loquacious God. At least that’s what Will Willimon thinks (“Preaching”, Sanctified by Grace, 221-233). And it seems he’s on to something. The Scriptures give us the story of a speaking God....
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Mere Fidelity: What is Christ-Centered Hermeneutics?
So, we’ve all see that phrase “Christ-centered” pop up on the blogosphere before. “Christ-centered preaching”, “Christ-centered theology”, “Christ-centered dog washing”–but what does that even mean?...
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Mere Fidelity: What to do with Refugees?
With the refugee crisis in full swing in Europe and the Middle East, Christians are questioning just what our role is in this situation. There’s the immediate, knee-jerk response of sending aid, and...
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Mere Fidelity: Karen Swallow Prior talks Animals
I couldn’t be there because of a scheduling conflict, but for this week’s Mere Fidelity episode, Matt Lee Anderson, Andrew Wilson, and Alastair Roberts are joined by our friend Karen Swallow Prior (the...
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Mere Fidelity 50th Episode (Ask Us Anything!)
About a year and half ago, Alastair Roberts, Andrew Wilson, and I recorded a phone chat we had on a couple of theological topics. We posted it up at Mere Orthodoxy under the title Casting Across the...
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Mere Fidelity: Manhood w/ Nate Pyle
Our society is wracked by a heavily-freighted questions of meaning, significance, and identity. Few questions are more central, though, than those concerning gender and sexuality. In this show, we...
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Mere Fidelity: The Transfiguration
And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and...
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