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Susannah Black RobertsUncategorized

Nation-Building in the Himalayas: The Cost of Kashmir - Radio Free Thulcandra

Earlier this week, Andrew Willard Jones, Marc Barnes, and Jacob Imam published a piece in Postliberal Thought in response to the claims of the naturalness and finality of the nation-state presented in the recent National Conservatism Conference. Among other things, […]

Jake MeadorEconomicshealth

The Post-Liberal State and the (Highly Technical) Goods of Modernity

The reality of local political authority? Si. The de facto abolition of the administrative state? No.

Myles WerntzFeatured

Book Review: The Meaning of Protestant Theology by Phillip Cary

Philip Cary's close reading of Augustine and Martin Luther on the nature of conversion and assurance is one of the best new theology books of the year.

E. J. HutchinsonFeatured

On “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” | Mere Orthodoxy

Keats's reflection on translation and Homer is a helpful meditation that helps us understand what translation can—and can't—do.

Nathan Luis CartagenaFeaturedCurrent Politics

Suffering Our Forefathers’ Sins: A Latino’s Reflection on White Supremacy

The definition of "whiteness" has been hotly contested ever since Iberian slave traders first began using the concept over 500 years ago.

Jon AskonasFeatured

Possessed in America | Mere Orthodoxy

When metaphysical violence is done to a society, it will eventually lead to more visceral and horrifying forms of violence.

Susannah Black RobertsUncategorized

Not All Postliberal Theocratic Statism is Good: an anti-Modi Post - Radio Free Thulcandra

When I was nine, we went to Kashmir for ten days or so, to Srinagar, one of the hill stations, to get out of the Delhi heat. Rented a houseboat. When my mom was growing up, her family would go […]

Jake MeadorChurch

When the News Is Not Actually News | Commonplaces

Most deconversion narratives shouldn't surprise us because we are living through a time of widespread decline and failure in the American church.

Ian MosleyFeaturedEducation

Latin for Politics: When the World of Spoken Latin Goes Woke

The culture wars are coming to the world of spoken Latin. Figuring out how best to adjudicate the conflict, however, is a complicated matter.

Jake MeadorBook Reviews

Augustinianism and Audience in "In Search of the Common Good

Brad East has what is perhaps my favorite response to the book so far, not least because it is one of the more critical responses, for which I am thankful. You can read the whole thing over at Resident Theologian.

Matthew Lee AndersonFeaturedEvangelicalism

Sex Ethics After Purity Culture: What do its critics want? | Mere Orthodoxy

As Christians reckon with the legacy of 90s and 2000s evangelicalism, the most vital question may well be what will come after the demise of purity culture?

Kevin HargadenBook Reviews

Book Review: Jean Vanier: Portrait of a Free Man by Anne-Sophie Constant

Constant's biography of Jean Vanier rightly treats the L'Arche founder as a Christian mystic rather than some kind of guru or healthcare entrepreneur.