The Archive
E. J. HutchinsonFeatured
Why do we read poetry? Why should we? April is National Poetry Month, so it makes sense to take advantage of it to introduce a new series on poetry at Mere Orthodoxy. Its objective is simple: to read some poems, […]
Jake MeadorFeaturedChurch
The burning of Notre Dame is a great loss to the global church. But in the burning is a call to those of us living through such days: We must rebuild.
James ClarkPoliticsFeatured
When American evangelicals began to earnestly engage in conventional politics in the 1950s, a problem emerged. As David L. Weeks put it in a 2001 article, “Evangelicals have never developed a coherent and compelling political philosophy. Instead, they have relied […]
Caleb WaitMere Fidelity
Biblicism
Daniel DeCarloFamilyFeatured
Jordan Peterson's project is largely about reconciling disillusioned young men to a neo-liberal order that otherwise doesn't have room for them.
Matthew LoftusFeaturedCurrent Politics
The crises of the earth's degradation and of familial life both have a common source--a refusal to live as an embodied members of a natural order.
Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics
The rhetoric and the actual policies passed by Reaganites seldom aligned. When we condemn Reaganism, what are we condemning? The ideas or the policies?
Caleb WaitMere Fidelity
The Spirituality of the Church
John ThomasFeaturedEconomics and Business
By John Thomas On February 24th, in an article titled Workism Is Making Americans Miserable, Derek Thompson made a compelling case that for many college-educated men and women, work has become a religion. Thompson writes,
Joshua HeavinFeatured
By Joshua Heavin Several decades ago, missiologist Lesslie Newbigin wrote about our impulse towards pragmatism in the post-Christendom West: In discussions about the contemporary mission of the Church it is often said that the Church ought to address itself to […]
Susannah Black RobertsFeatured
Political life begins in desire--desire for a certain sort of life for a beloved place. And the means we use to pursue that life follow from those desires.
Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics
It is clear that mainstream conservatism is a moral abyss. But why is that? One reason: Many of its leaders can imagine nothing worse than losing power.