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Matthew LoftusCulture

looking for better mind-readers - Doctors Without Boredom

if you think you're the lone bulwark of truth, you're halfway to tripping over your own shoelaces

Matthew LoftusCulture

looking for better mind-readers - Doctors Without Boredom

if you think you're the lone bulwark of truth, you're halfway to tripping over your own shoelaces

Timothy WoodFeaturedCurrent Politics

"Those Heathenish Christians": John Robinson's Warning to the Puritans and to Us - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“You will say they deserved it,” wrote the Separatist pastor John Robinson in 1623, after he first heard about the killings. The recipient of this letter was Pilgrim leader William Bradford, governor of the Plymouth colony in America. Robinson had […]

Todd StathamFeatured

A Numbing Blow: Baptism as Illiberalism - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers,” wrote the Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan. He was pointing out in his inimitable way how the course of our lives unfold from an act over […]

Hannah NationFeaturedEvangelicalism

The Bottoming Out of the American Evangelical Church - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The long shadow of 2016 continues to stretch over the church. I recently attended a social event held outdoors. Masking was the most immediately visible demarcation of political lines among a large group of professing Christians; but behind the masks, […]

Cody MoranFeatured

What Is a Smartphone?: A Thomistic Analysis - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

You understand almost nothing about your smartphone. I can prove it by asking a simple question: what is a smartphone? I suspect you will find difficulty articulating a definition which avoids either tautology or obvious error. But another simple question […]

Ali KjergaardFeaturedFormation

Sailing and the Christian Life - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“But here and there it shines out with a great and flashing beauty, like a light set upon a high place above the stormy or tranquil waters where we voyage. And the sceptic will say: is the beacon for me, […]

Matthew LoftusFeaturedHealth and Medicine

"Biopolitics" Are Unavoidable - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In the struggle to fight COVID-19, terms like “public health” and “community health” have been bandied about in an attempt to describe the ways in which our health as individuals is not dependent on ourselves alone. Wendell Berry says: “I […]

David MooreFeaturedHistory

Why We Are Restless - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Ben and Jenna Storey met while doing their doctorates at the University of Chicago. Ben is the Jane Gage Hipp Professor of Politics and International Affairs, and Director of the Tocqueville Program at Furman University. Jenna is Assistant Professor of […]

Christina StantonFeaturedHistory

The Sphere, 20 Years Later - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

It was love at first sight. Tall and statuesque, she cast a beautiful golden glow. To a 23-year-old Florida girl, she radiated the style and energy of my new city, and I wanted to be just like her. I sat […]

Matthew Rothaus MoserFeatured

100 Days of Dante - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

2021 marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri (b. 1265). Dante was a poet, a politician, a philosopher, and a theologian. He is best known for his masterpiece, La Commedia, known to anglophone readers as The Divine […]

Onsi A. KamelFeatured

Kanye the Pious - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

If you were to read half-a-dozen reviews of Kanye West’s latest album, Donda — and I recommend that you don’t —you would learn chiefly that West is a bad person. He’s a bad person for associating with social undesirables; he’s […]