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To Read Without Pleasure is Stupid: On the Novels of John Williams - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

John Williams is a moral novelist without being a moralist. His three great novels are sparse, beautiful reflections on human choice and responsibility.

Caleb WaitMere Fidelity

Mere Fidelity: The Invisibility of the Church

Mere Fidelity: The Invisibility of the Church

Jake Meador

Book Review: The Dignity Revolution by Daniel Darling - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

It is inherent to sin’s nature to rationalize itself. This is hardly a new insight. After all, the almost immediate response of Adam and Eve in the aftermath of the world’s first sin was to justify themselves by shifting the […]

Guest WriterFeaturedBloggingEvangelicalism

The Real Place for Conflict: On Keeping Controversy Close to Home

Social media creates a context in which everyone can voice their opinion on controversies, even when they have nothing to do with them or their home place.

Caleb WaitMere Fidelity

Spirit and Sacrament: An Invitation to Eucharismatic Worship

Spirit and Sacrament: An Invitation to Eucharismatic Worship

Guest WriterFeatured

Book Review: The Classical Revolution by John Borstlap | Mere Orthodoxy

Borstlap's book fails to deliver on its lofty promises because it doesn't take the time to sufficiently understand the targets of its criticisms.

Joshua HeavinFeatured

A Christian Ethic of Sex in a Pornographic Age | Mere Orthodoxy

Nadia Bolz-Weber's "Shamless" doesn't give readers a Christian understanding of sexual health. Rather, it makes them prisoners to the spirit of the age.

Guest WriterFeatured

Book Review: Music as an Art by Roger Scruton - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Is Scruton's book about a thousand years of western music or just a few centuries?

Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

Economics, Class and the Family, with Dr. Diane Schanzenbach

Economics, Class and the Family, with Dr. Diane Schanzenbach

Miles SmithFeaturedCurrent Politics

Liberalism's Tax on the Unborn - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

By Miles Smith In 1781 Thomas Jefferson left the office of governor of Virginia and wrote the sole book-length work attributed to him. In Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson reflected on what he knew was the great moral […]

Joshua HeavinFeaturedEducationEvangelicalism

On Theological Education and the Church's Health | Mere Orthodoxy

The American evangelical church's indifference to theological education is one of the primary causes of its current malaise.

Guest WriterFeatured

The Latin and Reformed Imagination | Mere Orthodoxy

Though it is often forgotten, the reformation of the 16th and 17th centuries was as much a literary event as a theological.