A Healthy Asceticism

In days gone by, when I would have to drive into work every morning, I made it a practice to regularly flip to National Public Radio, in an effort to…

Jul 8 • Blake Callens

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June 2026

Innocent as Snakes and Wise as Doves

A postmortem on the Reformed parachurch ecosystem.

Jun 18 • Blake Callens

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Organizational competence is a way of loving neighbor.

by Jake Meador

Published on Mere Orthodoxy | On Substack • Jun 2

May 2026

A Folk Hero is Born

Yesterday, the Rio Grande Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in America suspended pastor Zachary Garris.

May 29 • Blake Callens

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The Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians

I recently resolved to revisit the epistles of Ignatius, an early Bishop of Antioch, as, during my reading of the early church fathers through the…

May 23 • Blake Callens

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The False Church of Christian Media

If I’ve learned anything from years of studying, and writing about, the world of Christian media, it’s that the last thing a Christian should do is…

May 9 • Blake Callens

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April 2026

An Inexcusable Error

Last year, an elder and noted theologian in the Presbyterian Church in America was given a task of such immense importance the General Assembly diverted…

Apr 10 • Blake Callens

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March 2026

In Defense of Mild Obtuseness

While currently researching for my next planned book, which will argue both Great Awakenings were theological net negatives for the church in America…

Mar 28 • Blake Callens

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Christianity is Not That Kind of a Team Sport

An evangelical podcaster and writer, who spends more time defending MAGA and disparaging its enemies than talking about Jesus, complained about me the…

Mar 25 • Blake Callens

An Unreached People

I am old enough to remember being an adult in a nascent internet age, when indignation towards the following statement from a sitting United States…

Mar 14 • Blake Callens

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Hypernormalization

Not just as a Christian, but as a software engineer who has been online since one had to dial into a local bulletin board system in order to pipe into…

Mar 9 • Blake Callens

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Three Simple Questions

I want to ask what should be three simple questions:

Mar 7 • Blake Callens

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