The Archive
Matthew LoftusEthicsHealth & Medicine
The government shouldn't interfere with a parents' decision to try to keep their child alive. But keeping someone alive isn't always ethical & dignifying.
Jake MeadorBook ReviewsGina Dalfonzo
Many books are currently being published about how churches can effectively include minority groups. It's an admirable but potentially wrong-headed move.
Jake MeadorFeatured
Chapter five is, so far, the most contemporary essay in Du Bois’s book. In it, he considers the city of Atlanta and what it says about the future of both African Americans and the South more broadly considered. He begins […]
Jake MeadorCurrent Politics
The trouble with "Reclaiming Hope" is that, strangely, it is a deeply pietistic book about how Christians should work in politics.
Guest WriterEducationFormation
One of the chief questions about Ben Sasse's civil catechesis project is how it can actually take hold in a society that has limited basis for embracing it.
Jake MeadorFamilyFeatured
Father's Day reminds us of the joy that can grow in a home. But what happens in places where home is a reality experienced only occasionally and by a few?
Jake MeadorCurrent Politics
You’ll have to forgive my sounding like something of a broken record by this point, but I couldn’t let this news pass without flagging it for Mere O readers:
Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics
Ben Sasse's voting record may well contradict his stated social agenda. But if it does, it's worth asking "why?" and trying to understand the disconnect.
Matthew Lee AndersonFeatured
The latest edition of the New Yorker has a must-read article on the opioid crisis currently decimating West Virginia and surrounding states.
Jake MeadorFeatured
In chapter four Du Bois reflects on his time teaching at a black one-room schoolhouse in rural Tennessee. As such, most of the chapter is simply taken up with recounting what life looked like for an itinerant black school teacher […]
Jake MeadorFeatured
Jen Pollock Michel's new book, though not perfect, is an excellent reflection on how Christians should approach place, homelife, and hospitality.
Jake MeadorEvangelicalism
American evangelicalism is a deeply commercial sort of religion. Consequently, we struggle to imagine alternatives ways of talking about community life.