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Jake Meador

Re: John Adams's Fear - Commonplaces

This is worth a read from David:

Jake MeadorChurchCommunities

Church Life and Social Collapse - Commonplaces

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 […]

Jake MeadorChurchCommunities

Church Life and Social Collapse - Commonplaces

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 - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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 […]

Jake MeadorChurch

Church Does Not Equal Content - Commonplaces

(I’m indebted to Mark Sayers and Myles Werntz for much of what follows.) If church can just permanently be online for anyone who wishes it to be, then church is effectively little more than content: it’s music and speech beamed […]

Jake MeadorChurch

Church Does Not Equal Content - Commonplaces

(I’m indebted to Mark Sayers and Myles Werntz for much of what follows.) If church can just permanently be online for anyone who wishes it to be, then church is effectively little more than content: it’s music and speech beamed […]

Emily DeArdoFeatured

Reepicheep's Purity of Heart - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Clearly, Voyage of the Dawn Treader is the best of the Narnia novels, and a big part of that is due to a talking mouse. Yes. I’m talking about Reepicheep, the brave, swashbuckling Narnian mouse who is on a quest […]

Rebekah CurtisFeatured

Headaches and Housekeeping, Somebody Likes Prince Caspian? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

When I say that Prince Caspian is the best of the Chronicles of Narnia, I say it in the same way that I say I’d rather eat a chopped salad than anything else, or that my favorite pastime is going […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyEducation

why "education doesn't work" - Doctors Without Boredom

There are two primary problems with "failing schools" and American children. Don't confuse them.

Matthew LoftusFamilyEducation

why "education doesn't work" - Doctors Without Boredom

There are two primary problems with "failing schools" and American children. Don't confuse them.

Chandler MooreFeatured

The Place for Meeting Aslan is the Stone Table - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We are finally publishing the winners of our much delayed essay contest challenging readers to make their case for which book is the best in C. S. Lewis’s beloved series, The Chronicles of Narnia. Our series kicks off today with […]

Benjamin Wayman and Kent DunningtonFeaturedChurchCurrent Politicshealth

Friendship Through a Pandemic: Seeing More Clearly With Stanley Hauerwas - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Ephraim Radner and others have recently reflected that the church’s theologians have said shockingly little about the pandemic that’s really been helpful, that’s helped Christians think clearly about this global crisis. To get our heads straight, minds clear, and hearts […]