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Jake MeadorFeaturedBlogging

Announcing Mere Orthodoxy's Patreon Campaign | Mere Orthodoxy

We're excited to announce a few new projects and a new funding strategy to hopefully help grow the site by allowing us to pay our regular contributors.

Derek RishmawyFeatured

The Church Has Always Known Theological Controversy

Eugene Peterson's announcement regarding his views on homosexuality was disheartening, but it should not surprise Christians who know their history.

Susannah Black RobertsMere O Partnerships

Jesus the Imagination: A New Magazine Launches in Midtown Manhattan

Jesus the Imagination: A New Magazine Launches in Midtown Manhattan

Jake MeadorFeatured

17776 and the End of Nature | Mere Orthodoxy

17776 is an amazing, confusing, and fun piece of immersive fiction. But with the delight of reading it I also feel sad about the world it depicts.

Matthew LoftusFeaturedCurrent Politics

A Christian Manifesto on Healthcare and the State - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Matthew Loftus provided 14 theses for debate on Christianity, healthcare, and the responsibilities of the nation-state.

Jake MeadorFeatured

Book Review: Humble Roots by Hannah Anderson - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

A couple weeks ago I was reviewing a draft of Kayla Snow’s excellent review of The Long, Long Life of Trees and we began talking about the historically unprecedented ignorance of place that defines many in the west today. A book like […]

Matthew LoftusFeaturedTelevision

Finding the Gospel in Game of Thrones - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Unless you’re living under a rock (or the proverbial bushel), it’s impossible to have missed the phenomenon that is Game of Thrones. Part fantasy epic, part prestige television, its controversial subject matter has made it a bit of a touchy […]

Jake Meador

Book Review: Real Artists Don't Starve by Jeff Goins | Mere Orthodoxy

There is no shortage of practical wisdom here, but the ideology that shapes the book is destructive of anything save individual liberty and self-expression.

Guest WriterFeatured

Book Review: "The Boatman: Henry David Thoreau's River Years

The Boatmen tells of Thoreau's later years after his time at Walden and shows both why Thoreau is intriguing and why he is tragically flawed as a thinker.

Guest WriterFeatured

Book Review: The Long, Long Life of Trees by Fiona Stafford - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I’m pleased to publish this book review by Kayla Snow. Any book written with the expressed intention of moving its readers to stop reading is one that piques my curiosity. When that book is about trees, I am especially intrigued. […]

Matthew LoftusEthicsHealth & Medicine

letting dying people die is not the same as killing them - Doctors Without Boredom

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.

Matthew LoftusEthicsHealth & Medicine

letting dying people die is not the same as killing them - Doctors Without Boredom

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.