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Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

Health care is not a human right, but it is also not just a market commodity - Doctors Without Boredom

Health care is a social good that buttresses the right to life. It is not a market commodity.

Matthew LoftusFeaturedChurchCulture War

A Social Justice Warrior in King Roderick's Court | Mere Orthodoxy

The Social Justice Warriors need the Benedict Option as much as the Benedict Option needs the Social Justice Warriors.

Miles SmithSocial TrendsBook Reviews

Reviewing Archbishop Charles Chaput's "Strangers in a Strange Land"

Reviewing Archbishop Charles Chaput's "Strangers in a Strange Land"

Charlie ClarkBook Reviews

Reviewing Adalbert Stifter's "Rock Crystal"

Adalbert Stifter's "Rock Crystal" is a 19th century novella that draws its readers into an imaginative world by telling the story of two lost children.

Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

Mere Fidelity: On Lent, with Steven Wedgeworth

Mere Fidelity: On Lent, with Steven Wedgeworth

Brian MesimerFamilyFeatured

I Am iPhone: How Our Tech Endangers Our Relationships

Remote infidelity is an emerging problem affecting many American relationships. Dealing with it effectively will likely require radical action.

Guest WriterFeaturedEvangelicalismFormation

Pastoral Care and the Trauma of Life: A Reformed Evangelical Approach

Reformed theology provides pastors with the resources to help address trauma, which is what makes those churches struggles to address it well so sad.

Jake MeadorFeatured

Reviewing Rod Dreher's "The Benedict Option | Mere Orthodoxy

Before it is anything else, Rod Dreher's "The Benedict Option" is a handbook for Christians attempting to live out their faith in a post-Christian world.

Matthew LoftusCultureandycrouch

Andy Crouch on race, power, and culture making - Doctors Without Boredom

Andy Crouch is on a podcast spree hitting on important topics like race, power, and culture making.

Matthew LoftusCultureandycrouch

Andy Crouch on race, power, and culture making - Doctors Without Boredom

Andy Crouch is on a podcast spree hitting on important topics like race, power, and culture making.

Brad EastFeaturedHistoryEvangelicalism

Theologians Were Arguing About the Benedict Option 35 Years Ago

The current Benedict Option debate has its roots in academic debates of the early 1980s and, as such, vindicates Hunter's argument in "To Change the World."

Jake MeadorFeaturedHistoryCulture War

The New Alarmism Is Not New and Is Not Alarmism | Mere Orthodoxy

The problems that Rod Dreher, Archbishop Chaput, Drs. R. R. Reno and Anthony Esolen raise in their books aren't new and their concerns are quite reasonable.