The Archive
Jake Meador
From The Guardian: Once, when I was staying in Houston, Texas, my host was showing me round her house. It included a mighty fireplace. “How often does it get cold enough to light a fire?” I asked, as what little I […]
Matthew LoftusHistoryEconomicsHealth & Medicine
Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the Alma Ata Declaration (PDF) — the landmark 1978 World Health Organization statement by 134 countries affirming the vital role of primary health care. This article explains why it’s so important to still focus on […]
Jake Meador
The new reading environment built around the social stream corrodes the minds of writer and reader alike.
Matthew LoftusCulture
Lyz Lenz digs into the history of Tucker Carlson to try to figure out what happened to America: I am trying to listen. I am trying to understand. I want to understand. If I can figure out what happened to […]
Jake Meador
Tyler Cowen thinks it is #actually good to own things instead of pay monthly subscription fees. He's almost certainly right.
Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity
Mere Fidelity: Trust and Trustworthiness in a Fallen World
Matthew LoftusCulture
I’ve longed followed Jackson Wu and his writings about honor and shame in the Bible and missions, so I’m pleased to see he’s published a longer article with a more comprehensive look at the subject: Everyone agrees shame is a pervasive […]
Jake Meador
Sacasas: It is not just the technological tools available to us that deform us; it is also the desire for attention we have which these tools encourage.
Susannah Black and Jake MeadorMere O Toast
If different internet famous Christians decided to pull a Bryan Colangelo, what would their alt handles be? What would they use their accounts to do?
Matthew Loftus
Eve Tushnet digs into the complicated witness of the saints who have suffered abuse — and how they proclaim Christ, the abused: The saints bear witness to what the Church really is. This is not an uncomplicated witness. St. Mary […]
Matthew LoftusFamilyCulture
This is a painful and necessary post from Jason Johnson about foster care and adoption: The new reality of our family, having now adopted that little girl that was once a file on top of a stack, is that we […]
Matthew LoftusFamilyHistoryEducation
This piece about black families in America choosing to homeschool captures many of the elements that families struggle with over the public school system: Yet Fields-Smith made a point of noting the respect black families had for the people running […]