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Kevin BrownFeaturedEducationJournalJournal 2

The Case for the Christian Liberal Arts in a Polarized, Fractious Age

Physicist Leonard Mlodinow opens his entertaining book The Drunkard’s Walk with the story of a lottery winner whose lucky ticket ended with the number 48.[1]  However, according to the contestant, luck had nothing to do with it. Claiming clairvoyance, they dreamt the […]

Michael WearFeaturedJournalJournal 2

Food and the Life of the Nations

We are not simply the users of creation; we are, all of us, called to be its offerers. The world will be lifted, as it was always meant to be, by our priestly love. We can, you see, take it […]

David MooreFeatured

Biblical Philosophy: Is There Such a Thing?

Dru Johnson directs the Center for Hebraic Thought and is an associate professor of biblical studies at The King’s College. He is the author of several books on the intellectual world of the Bible. This interview revolves around his latest […]

Moriah HawkinsFeaturedCurrent PoliticsJournalJournal 2

Marilynne Robinson Imagines the Soul of America

Living there, you’ll be free, if you truly wish to be.” ~Gene Wilder, Pure Imagination The frigid breeze gusting through downtown Des Moines, Iowa, did little to help the Democratic Nominee for President, Joe Biden, as he struggled to project […]

Malcolm FoleyPoliticsFeaturedJournalJournal 2

On Healing: Learning from Separatists

The idea of a black nation seems so far-fetched as to be ludicrous, but if you entertain it for a minute, even as an impossible dream, it should give you a feeling of wholeness and belonging you’ve never had and […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedJournalJournal 2

People Flourish Together: Introducing Issue #2 on Nations and Nationalism

People flourish together. That is the animating conviction behind this edition of Mere Orthodoxy. Because it is not good for us to be alone, it follows that we must needs be bound to one another in relationships of love, mutuality, […]

Ali KjergaardFeatured

Divine Presence in Dark Nights of the Soul

My argument begins in the most cliché of fashion, I grew up a Christian home-schooler reading the Chronicles of Narnia for the first time at a pretty young age. It was a rainy November day and my mom had built […]

Thomas SieberhagenFeatured

A Better Man

Confession: The Magician’s Nephew freaked me out the first time I read it. I was eight, in the back of my family’s van, road tripping across the southeast, and my parents popped in the audiobook in an attempt to keep […]

Tyler StittFeatured

The Answer is to Remember

The Silver Chair is the finest of the Chronicles of Narnia books. In certain ways, the storyline bears the fruit of all the others, and therefore it can take us most deeply into the world Lewis has created for us. […]

Jake Meador

Re: John Adams's Fear

This is worth a read from David:

Jake MeadorChurchCommunities

Church Life and Social Collapse

Anne Helen Petersen recently featured a piece on her Substack written by a Peloton customer sharing her experience with the company. What’s most striking about the piece is the title, though it is helpful to read the whole thing to […]

Brewer EberlyFeatured

Closest to the Sun

Surely Michael Ward’s mind boiled and brightened in 2003 when he discovered that each of the seven books in C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia echo one of the seven spheres of the medieval solar system. The Lion, the […]