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The Time is Near - Radio Free Thulcandra

I’ve never written about this before, but today is the first Sunday of Advent, and it’s also both C.S. Lewis’ and Madeleine L’Engle’s birthday, and so I am going to try to describe something – at least to start. I […]

Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

‘The Logic of the Body,’ with Dr. Matthew LaPine

‘The Logic of the Body,’ with Dr. Matthew LaPine

Brad EastFeatured

Befriending Books: On Reading and Thinking with Alan Jacobs and Zena Hitz - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We like to think, of course, that we think; but what people allow to pass for thinking is usually about 90 percent reshuffling of images. —Robert Farrar Capon Do you want to do intellectual work? Begin by creating within you […]

Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

A Theology of Gratitude

A Theology of Gratitude

Brianna LambertFeatured

Love, According to E. B. White - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I often feel great pressure to craft perfect answers. Whether it’s a question from my eight year old or from a friend in Bible study, my mind goes through all the angles to create a proper response. I don’t want […]

Isaiah BergFeatured

Book Review: Live Not by Lies by Rod Dreher | Mere Orthodoxy

Dreher's latest is a bracing and convicting call to commit ourselves to truth, even in the face of opposition and adversity.

Angela GorrellFeatured

Book Review: Can't Even by Anne Helen Petersen - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We live in a cultural landscape ripe for burnout. In Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation, Anne Helen Petersen engages in compelling cultural analysis to argue why millennials are not lazy or entitled (as they have wrongly been […]

Ian OlsonFeaturedCurrent Politics

Death Does Not Come for the Deserving - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

At that time, some people came and reported to Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. And He responded to them, “Do you think that these Galileans were more sinful than all Galileans because they […]

Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

US vs. UK Evangelicalism

US vs. UK Evangelicalism

Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

Christian Hospitality in an Age of Fear: An Interview with Rod Dreher - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

This is a lightly edited and condensed transcript of a conversation I had with Rod Dreher about his new book Live Not by Lies. Jake Meador: Thanks so much for joining me. I’m excited to talk to you more about […]

Cort GatliffFeaturedHealth and MedicineAnthropology

Book Review: The End of the Christian Life by J. Todd Billings - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We live in a death-denying and death-defying culture. We know, on an intellectual level, that one day we will die, yet we tend to avoid contemplating this inescapable truth more than is strictly necessary. For modern people, death is an […]

timmotteTheologyMere Fidelity

'Divine Ideas,' with Dr. Thomas M. Ward

'Divine Ideas,' with Dr. Thomas M. Ward