The Archive
Jake MeadorSacred Season
The liturgical seasons can come alongside us as Christians to provide a framework for knowing more of God, ourselves, and parenting little ones.
Miles SmithFeaturedHistory
The Virginian founding father and arch-liberal feared that Calvinists, not Catholics, would be the undoing of his experiment in political liberalism.
Alan FimisterFeatured
Our cities have become so large they are no longer human-scale communities. They also are not states. So what exactly are they?
Susannah Black RobertsUncategorized
To the surprise of precisely no one, Stephen Miller has been exposed as a white nationalist– I mean, obviously, but there’s more that’s concrete now. The SPLC released a report, based on emails turned over to them by former Breitbart […]
Jake MeadorFeaturedChurch
The relationship between divine law and ecclesial authority articulated by Cardinal Burke sounds strikingly similar to Protestant teaching on the matter.
John SheltonFeatured
What are we to make of avatars? Are they a rebellion against the givenness of our bodies and ourselves as creations—or are they a ‘cheeky’ avenue to virtue?
Caleb Wait
Derek, Alastair, and Matt catch up and talk about the miscellaneous issues they are seeing and experiencing today: Kid’s sports on Sundays, Kanye West, the problem of over-booked and busy schedules, the death of New-Atheism, and more. Timestamps: Intro […]
Jake MeadorChurch
To begin, if you aren’t following Tara Ann Thieke on Twitter, you should remedy that. She’s great. This post is inspired by a list she posted on Twitter awhile back which we have been discussing intermittently in Mere O Slack […]
Isabel ChenotFeatured
Suppose the reformer stops saying that a good woman may be like God and begins by saying that God is like a good woman. Suppose he says that we might just as well pray to ‘Our Mother which art in […]
Jake MeadorFeaturedThomas Reviews Worship Songs
In which the Angelic Doctor analyzes Darlene Zschech's popular worship song "Breathe."
Jake MeadorEconomics
Somewhat improbably, the reformist Republican critique of market-states may actually be more trenchant than the moderate Democratic critique.
Casey ShuttFeaturedEducation
The problem for our schools is a flawed telos that is too much in step with the cadence of the wild. An essentially violent world begets violent schools.