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Stiven PeterCulture

Christ Repairs Culture

Evangelicals obsess over the relationship between Christ and Culture, yet often in ways disconnected from daily life.

Samuel C HeardTechnologyHealth & Medicine

The Rise of Hyperpleasures

Hyperpleasures are strong dopamine hits that overwhelm the brain. They are an existential problem for people seeking to follow Jesus... or just be human.

Rhys LavertyFeatured

Time is Always Time: Christopher Nolan, T. S. Eliot, and Creatureliness

Christopher Nolan has a long, well-documented fascination with time. But what his films have not been able to do is show a way of escaping creatureliness.

Dave Strunk and Ben RuyackFeaturedChurch

The Four Quadrants of Church Life in the Gray Zone - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Any pastor of a church over 70 people[1] has to develop some kind of rhythm or strategy with which they encourage their church into greater fruitfulness in Christ. For better or ill, we’ve been calling these things ‘programs’ for some […]

Jake MeadorChurchCommunities

Decadence, Joe Rogan, and Non-Anxious Authority - Commonplaces

I’m an old-cohort millennial or, if you like, part of the Oregon Trail generation. I graduated college in 2010. At that time, I was definitely aware of transgenderism, for example, because I was an English major and I worked at […]

Jake MeadorChurchCommunities

Decadence, Joe Rogan, and Non-Anxious Authority - Commonplaces

I’m an old-cohort millennial or, if you like, part of the Oregon Trail generation. I graduated college in 2010. At that time, I was definitely aware of transgenderism, for example, because I was an English major and I worked at […]

Leah Libresco SargeantFeaturedEconomics and BusinesshealthJournalJournal 3

How to Value Caring Work - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Immediately before Jesus institutes the sacrament of the Eucharist at the Last Supper, he kneels before his disciples to wash their feet. Peter objects to being served by his Lord, finding it improper, but Jesus tells him that, “Unless I […]

Ian HarberFormationMental Health

The Christian in a Therapeutic Age

Living in a therapeutic cultural moment creates unique challenges and complexities for Christian life and ministry.

Tara ThiekeFamilyFeaturedEducation

Cats and Sixty Foot Whales: Reflections on Children's Books

Wonder is the birthright of every child and yet the vast majority of contemporary children's lit is designed to beat wonder out of even the smallest child.

Gracy OlmsteadFamilyFeatured

Markets and the Strangulation of the American Family | Mere Orthodoxy

If the American people care about the family, it's high time we start to act like it because, as two recent books show, the American family is struggling.

Kirsten SandersFamilyFeaturedAnthropology

Tethered Still - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I am a mother and a theologian. These two facts belong together, inextricable as they are for me and my experience of them. I was pregnant with my first child as I began my doctoral work; I carried her to […]

Eric MillerFeaturedEducationEconomics and Business

The Market Made Me Do It: The Scandal of the Evangelical College - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Mark Noll’s The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind turned twenty-five last year. If we know a classic by its ability to speak across eras, one single event from this past summer is enough to assure everyone of the continuing tragic […]