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Tessa CarmanFeaturedCultureCreation CareJournalJournal 3

Following Christ in the Machine Age: A Conversation with Paul Kingsnorth - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

How do we stay human in a technocratic age? How do we live rooted lives —spiritually and otherwise — in an unsettled time? How do we make sense of life in the modern world? English writer Paul Kingsnorth has been […]

Tara ThiekeFeaturedJournalJournal 2

When the Ad Replaced the Icon - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Ellen Wayland-Smith. The Angel in the Marketplace. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 288pp, $30. Throughout the 2010s the signs of a new holy month became undeniable. Each June seemed to mark an exponential increase in rainbow flags. Early summer […]

Vika PecherskyFeaturedJournalJournal 2

Imperial Migrations - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The question I dislike the most is, “Where are you from?” My Eastern-European accent usually gives away the fact that I am not, should I say, local. Now that I live on the East Coast, I am often tempted to […]

Bryan BaiseFeaturedCulture

Teach Them Friendship - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

A significant amount of chatter has occupied social media about masculinity, manhood, and why men, both young and old, seem to shy away from these concepts. And just like the platforms from which these discussions arose, there are as many […]

Seth TrouttGender

The Masculinity Pyramid

A healthy account of masculinity has to emphasize humility, discipline, responsibility, and strength.

Joshua HeavinFeaturedChurchEvangelicalismFormation

The Church Will Not Be Consulted - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In recent years it has become increasingly popular for churches of differing sizes, locations, and denominational traditions to make use of consultant services to find new ministers and staff for Christian institutions. If you browse the denominational job boards of […]

Ana SiljakTechnology

The Golden Calf

Whatever we create will be subject to error and entropy. And deifying imperfection and impermanence simply, and inevitably, leads to disappointment.

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

Drunk Tears on a Barren Sea: Augustinian Reflections on Desire

Misshapen desires are self-defeating, and so will eventually bring us to tears.

Stiven PeterEvangelicalismCulture WarBook Reviews

Want people to go to Church? Invite them. Want them to stay? Invite them into your life.

The Great Dechurching isn't primarily driven by the culture war. It's driven by the radical absence of the church in the day to day lives of people.

John SheltonTheology

Theology is Dangerous

Gregory of Nazianzus warned us centuries ago that the study of theology is not for everyone. Recent trends in academic theology are proving him right.

Susannah Black RobertsHistoryLiterature

The Birth of Comedy

The world that vitalists nostalgic for the Bronze Age wish to recover was waiting for something: longing for something more than a brief, passing glory.

Jake MeadorHistoryChurch

The American Church in the Fourth Republic

The problems facing the church at the dawn of America's fourth republic are unlike those that have confronted her at earlier moments in American history.