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Andrew ArndtTheologyFormation

To Us a Child: A Christmas Sermon

A Christmas sermon from Rev. Andrew Arndt

Jake MeadorEliot Awards

2025 Eliot Awards

The latest edition of Mere Orthodoxy's annual 'Eliot Awards' are now live.

Jim WildemanFormation

What One Urbanite Learned from Wendell Berry

Perhaps Mr Berry would think these are half measures. But to me they remain significant ways that his work has changed and improved my urban life.

Samuel JamesFilm Reviews/HollywoodFormation

The Ghost of Christmas Never

Many young men need to see heaven. They need a visitation from a future of hope they don’t currently have, the Ghost of Christmas Never.

E. J. HutchinsonMusicTheologyChurch

O God, Creator of All Things: A Hymn of St Ambrose

Here you can read in English for the first time a translation of a hymn of St Ambrose's that was much loved by both St Augustine and Martin Luther.

Michael LuccheseCulture

Why Iconoclasm Will Fail

Force alone is insufficient as a basis for political life. Common life arises from common loves preserved by the rule of law, not imposed by tyrants.

Andrew HubbardTheology

No Other Means: An Advent Reflection

It is only because the immortal became mortal that we ourselves can become immortal. There is no other way. That is what we anticipate during Advent.

Elizabeth SticeBook Reviews

Why History Matters

David McCullough's final work is a testament to the conviction that drove all his work—that history matters immensely and imparts wisdom to its students.

Drake OsbornTechnologyChurchFormation

What is Technology Good For?

We can and should distinguish between technologies that primarily preserve, technologies that primarily produce, and technologies that primarily form.

Nadya WilliamsFamilyTechnologyHealth & Medicine

Freebirth in an Age of Hospitals

The Free Birth Society is a dangerous reaction to the many ways that hospitals fail to care well for pregnant women.

Hayden NesbitBibleFormation

Resonance and the Psalms

The Psalms can offer a powerful window for helping us understand the shape of a good life in the world that does not seek to control the world.

Jared MichelsonTheologyFormation

How to Live a Hidden Life

Even now, Thomas still offers a stronger vision for personal significance and meaning than his modern detractors.