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Nadya WilliamsTechnology

Trojan Horses and Magnifica Humanitas

The work that we do, especially in taking care of each other, is exhausting. Creative work is challenging too for many, who understandably grow eager to outsource it now. But could such simple daily acts be good for us, even an integral part of what makes us human? 

Elizabeth SticeFormation

The Case for Copying 'The Imitation of Christ' by Hand

For most of church history, we internalized key texts by transcribing them. One great books prof has brought that practice back to her students.

Cameron ShafferChurchBook Reviews

The Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic

Myles Werntz’s Contesting the Body of Christ: Ecclesiology’s Revolutionary Century is a refreshing and welcome contribution to ecclesiological discussions.

Jake Meador

Welcome to the New Mere Orthodoxy

We're launching a new site and member dashboard. Read this to learn why.

Joey SherrardBook Reviews

Augustine and the Glittering Vices of Christian Ministry

Augustine describes sin carefully to learn to see it. He does that not just so we can see it over there, but so we can learn to see it in ourselves.

Matthew CluraghtyCulture

The Ancient World Had No Word for Child Abuse

The Christian revolution transformed a normal practice of the Roman world into a moral offense and a crime in the Christian world.

John AhernFormation

Why Christian Scholars Need the Psalms

We must build institutions that seek to form Christian minds according to Scripture. If we don’t, it will be done anyway, but not in ways we want.

Steven WillingFormation

A Taxonomy of Pride in 'The Great Divorce'

Lewis's 'The Great Divorce' offers a bracing and disturbing series of portraits all showing different forms of pride and its fruit.

Case ThorpCulture

Ida B. Wells's Public Faith

Emboldened by her understanding of Christianity, Ida B. Wells walked the gospel into places where it was unwelcome.

Haley IsbellChurchEducation

The Other Side of Seminary

The banal work of submitting invoices and managing calendars is easy to forget, but our institutions can't function without people who do that work well.

John EhrettCultureBook Reviews

The Problem with 'Religion'

A key problem with Christian nationalist theories is that they presuppose the modernist conception of 'religion' that they ostensibly want to subvert.

Erik CoonceBook ReviewsChurch

A Scrapbook of Pastoral Care

What ought to occupy a pastor’s time? Long-time pastor Reuben Bredenhof attempts to address that question in his book 'The Ministry of Small Things.'