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Tara Isabella BurtonFeaturedAnthropology

Star of the Sea | Mere Orthodoxy

This is an essay about Mary. This is a piece of theology. This is a story about a man I didn't know. This is a debate between proponents of different views.

Susannah Black Roberts

On Chosen Family in East Village Vaguely Soviet Speakeasies - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Last night, we launched Issue 23 of Plough Quarterly, at the Red Room at KGB Bar on East 4th Street. I went there first when I was probably sixteen or so, for a book launch of my father’s, and I’ve […]

Kyle WilliamsFeaturedEconomics and Business

Happiness, Virtue, and the Bastard Science - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Happiness is a personal problem. Or so it may seem. Consider the self-help section. A library of recent books offers just the right mindset, self-care regimen, or practical hack for troubled souls who, presumably, hope that one more piece of […]

Susannah Black RobertsPoliticsHistory

Auschwitz - Radio Free Thulcandra

The only Auschwitz survivor I knew well was my friend Claire Fiala. She died about 18 months ago; she was my neighbor, and I spent a couple of winters shoveling her walk, until, in the last two years of her […]

Susannah Black RobertsPoliticsHistory

Auschwitz - Radio Free Thulcandra

The only Auschwitz survivor I knew well was my friend Claire Fiala. She died about 18 months ago; she was my neighbor, and I spent a couple of winters shoveling her walk, until, in the last two years of her […]

Gracy OlmsteadFeaturedCreation CareCurrent Politics

Why Protecting Rivers is a Conservative Cause | Mere Orthodoxy

Clean drinking water is a good worth protecting—even if it means one less suburb, or a few more regulations for oil and gas companies.

Daniel DeCarloFeatured

Hinterland: Review of an Apocalypse - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Shattered souls and ruined lives are the plot, and the ever-burgeoning, post-industrial wastelands created by the forces of global capitalism are the setting in Phil A. Neel’s gripping and brutal new book Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict. […]

Brian MesimerFeatured

Leviathan, Zarathustra, and the End(s) of Liberalism | Mere Orthodoxy

To sustain itself liberalism must receive moral content from outside itself. In the absence of such content, it will fracture and break.

Jake MeadorFeatured

The Freedom of the Trad - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Freddie De Boer has a typically sharp post up at his personal blog analyzing the ‘trad’ trend in some (mostly culturally elite) social circles. Do read the whole thing, but this graf gets at the main critique nicely: Here’s the […]

T. Wyatt ReynoldsFeatured

Book Review: The Genealogical Adam and Eve by Joshua Swamidass

Wyatt Reynolds reviews Swamidass's intriguing proposal for talking about origins with a particular focus on the question of common ancestry.

Caleb Wait

The Imprecatory Psalms with Trevor Laurence - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Christians are told to love their enemies and pray for those who persecute them, but should we also pray for justice and judgment to befall our enemies? Trevor Laurence, Executive Director of the Cateclesia Institute, joins Derek and Andrew to […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism

Notes on Christianity Today's Impeachment Editorial | Mere Orthodoxy

Many of the responses to Mark Galli's editorial are silly, but one in particular was very good and worth considering at greater length.