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Book ReviewsCharles Carman

Hospitality, Desecration, Politics: A Review of Carl Trueman's 'The Desecration of Man'

The Desecration of Man: How the Rejection of God Degrades Our Humanity. Carl Trueman. Sentinel Press, April 2026. $29, 256 pp. - Over a century ago, Max Weber characterized modernity

TechnologyFamilyFormationIsaac DeValois

How My Family Uses Yoto to Teach Our Kids the Faith

Christian families will be greatly helped by this little device for its simple and convenient opportunity to help conduct catechesis.

TechnologyTheologyAmy Mantravadi

The Challenge and the Hope of Magnifica Humanitas

The call for Christians is therefore to be like Nehemiah and his fellow countrymen rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. We must not be “passive spectators of social and cultural fractures, nor mere commentators on what is crumbling.”

Jake MeadorChurch

Organizational competence is a way of loving neighbor.

When people don't care about policy and procedure, institutions are unequipped to deal with radicals who undermine the institution's purity and peace.

Eddie LaRow

That Hideous Narcissism

All in all, the modern self is remarkably free and remarkably miserable. Liberated from limits and boundaries, we find we are not walking toward anything — only away from something.

Jackson GreerBook Reviews

Agatha Christie Is Still Worth Reading

Christie wrote intelligent and insightful novels that, as she knew it, are middlebrow. While not all Christie books are of the same quality, her famous novels rightfully earned their place as classics of the genre, and she is worth a closer reading.

Benjamin PetersonBook Reviews

Community, Character, and the Governance of the Social Commons: Sanctuaries of Order

So much seems to be going wrong in our society. There is so much dissent, there are so many acts of violence, and there is so much division about the

Nadya WilliamsTechnology

Trojan Horses and Magnifica Humanitas

The work that we do, especially in taking care of each other, is exhausting. Creative work is challenging too for many, who understandably grow eager to outsource it now. But could such simple daily acts be good for us, even an integral part of what makes us human? 

Elizabeth SticeFormation

The Case for Copying 'The Imitation of Christ' by Hand

For most of church history, we internalized key texts by transcribing them. One great books prof has brought that practice back to her students.

Cameron ShafferChurchBook Reviews

The Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic

Myles Werntz’s Contesting the Body of Christ: Ecclesiology’s Revolutionary Century is a refreshing and welcome contribution to ecclesiological discussions.

Jake Meador

Welcome to the New Mere Orthodoxy

We're launching a new site and member dashboard. Read this to learn why.

Joey SherrardBook Reviews

Augustine and the Glittering Vices of Christian Ministry

Augustine describes sin carefully to learn to see it. He does that not just so we can see it over there, but so we can learn to see it in ourselves.