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Amy MantravadiBooks

Reading Dante with C. S. Lewis, Dorothy Sayers, and Charles Williams

Gibson's new book offers readers three exceptional guides to help them as they read one of the greatest poets of the western world.

Daniel K. WilliamsBooks

A Protestant Response to a Roman Argument for Christendom

For being about common life and social order, Jones's book lives entirely in the realm of theory, rendering it strangely divorced from political reality.

John EhrettFormation

How to Have a Day Job and an Intellectual Life

It is entirely possible to have a robust intellectual life outside of formal academic settings.

Wyatt GrahamTechnologyBooks

To Be a Christian Is to Sanctify the Machine

Against the Machine is a philosophy of history, one that sees us in an age of decay. But must we abandon it all? Should we not sanctify it instead? 

Jake MeadorBibleTheology

Bible and Theology Reading Plans for 2026

A set of reading plans to take you through the Bible in 2026 or through the works of some of the church's greatest teachers.

Eddie LaRowTechnologySexuality

The Flattening of the Human Person: Looksmaxxing and Clavicular

Emerging movements that emphasize bodily transformation as a tool for identity curation end up grinding the human person down to their bone structure.

Jake MeadorBooks

What We Read in 2025

A recap of some of the Mere O band's favorite books they read in 2025

Jake MeadorBest of Mere Orthodoxy

Best of Mere Orthodoxy: 2025

A recap of the past year's work at Mere Orthodoxy

Andrew ArndtTheologyFormation

To Us a Child: A Christmas Sermon

A Christmas sermon from Rev. Andrew Arndt

Jake MeadorEliot Awards

2025 Eliot Awards

The latest edition of Mere Orthodoxy's annual 'Eliot Awards' are now live.

Jim WildemanFormation

What One Urbanite Learned from Wendell Berry

Perhaps Mr Berry would think these are half measures. But to me they remain significant ways that his work has changed and improved my urban life.

Samuel JamesFilm Reviews/HollywoodFormation

The Ghost of Christmas Never

Many young men need to see heaven. They need a visitation from a future of hope they don’t currently have, the Ghost of Christmas Never.