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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.

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.

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.

Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

Against the Political Atheists: On the Safety of the Dead Consensus

Every society will be ordered to a higher good. If political systems themselves do not participate in the work, it will simply be taken over by capital.

Joseph MinichBibleFeatured

Jesus, Laughter, and the Bright Side of Life | Mere Orthodoxy

The Life of Brian's nietzscheanism is one way of responding to death. Jesus, the man of sorrows, exemplifies another response.

Susannah Black RobertsPolitics

Liberal Sacraments - Radio Free Thulcandra

Recently, Adrian Vermeule published a piece in Church Life Journal in which he pointed out the inherently destabilizing nature of liberalism. As he describes it, the “natural laws” of the life of regimes dictate that the persistence of a regime […]

Susannah Black RobertsPolitics

Liberal Sacraments - Radio Free Thulcandra

Recently, Adrian Vermeule published a piece in Church Life Journal in which he pointed out the inherently destabilizing nature of liberalism. As he describes it, the “natural laws” of the life of regimes dictate that the persistence of a regime […]

Jake Meador

Liturgical Jigs and Millennial Burnout - Commonplaces

In his book The World Beyond Your Head Matthew Crawford uses the idea of a jig to explain how a carpenter might go about accomplishing a task more quickly and efficiently. Jigs are a kind of hack, a method for doing […]