The Archive

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Elizabeth SticeCurrent PoliticsBook Reviews

Finding Ourselves in Augustine's "City of God"

The priorities and concerns that animated Augustine's political thought are often quite foreign to us today, which is what makes him a valuable guide.

Jake MeadorCurrent Politics

The Meaning of "Weird"

There is a reason the 'these are weird people' line has worked so well for Democrats. It would behoove traditionalist Christians to understand that reason.

Mike St. ThomasFeaturedEducation

Contemplative Pedagogy: Notes on Educating Screen-Addled Students - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Not long ago I taught a summer class in creative writing to middle schoolers. On one sun-drenched day, I took the class outside to wander through our campus and down to our stretch of shoreline on Narragansett Bay. Their task […]

Tessa CarmanFeaturedCreation Care

Becoming a Perennial: A Conversation with Grace Olmstead - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We’ve Left Behind (March 2021) Grace tells the story of her hometown of Emmett, Idaho, where her great-grandfather and great-grandmother lived and farmed, and where her grandparents and parents still live. Through […]

Patrick MillerChurch

We Can't Come Down

If you're a Christian leader but not a shepherd for sale, then you shouldn't become entangled with internet controversies. Just keep building.

Jake MeadorFormation

Gratitude and the Life of Institutions

Healthy, life-giving relationships are virtually always formed within institutions where common loves and ambitions are more easily discovered.

Seth TrouttHealth & MedicineSexuality

Queer Theory as Actualized Cartesianism

Though originally an epistemological argument, Descartes' 'cogito' has profound and disturbing anthropological entailments.

Jake MeadorHistoryCurrent Politics

Misreading Hamilton and 'Hamilton'

Our striver class lacks outlets and so slides toward decadence. The solution will be, at least in part, a moral awakening, a remembering of grace.

Nadya WilliamsBook Reviews

In Praise of Plodders

The happiest people aren't those who have great wealth or power, but those who persist in small, ordinary faithfulness within their communities.

Jake MeadorFormation

Therapy and Bug Men

Though of limited help to us, neither therapy nor weight training nor any other earthly technique can truly provide the healing balm we seek.

John SheltonCurrent Politics

When The Resistance Comes To Rule: J. D. Vance and the Apotheosis of Postliberal Politics

So far post-liberal control of the GOP has coincided with the party's abandonment of social conservatives and embrace of barstool conservatism.

John SheltonCurrent Politics

When The Resistance Comes To Rule: J. D. Vance and the Apotheosis of Postliberal Politics

So far post-liberal control of the GOP has coincided with the party's abandonment of social conservatives and embrace of barstool conservatism.