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Brady BowmanWorkTechnology

Best of 2024: What If There Is No Such Thing as 'Biblical' Productivity?

You don't need a Bible verse to teach you how to get stuff done or justify your strategy for getting stuff done.

Samuel C HeardTechnologyHealth & Medicine

Best of 2024: 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.

Jake Meador

The Last Ten Years and the Next Ten

We're building the preemminent Protestant ideas magazine. Will you join us?

Wyatt GrahamInstitutionsBibleCurrent Politics

Best Of 2024: Institution Building Requires Virtue

Any institution worth building must be founded on virtue.

Andrew ArndtChurchFormation

A Christmas Sermon

A Christmas sermon from Andrew Arndt, pastor of New Life East in Colorado Springs, CO

Patrick MillerChurchCulture WarEvangelism

Best of 2024: What Happened When My Church Encountered Negative World

Christian love and showing grace to our enemies isn't a 'strategy' that can go out of date. It's simply what biblical fidelity requires.

Jake Meador

Best of Mere Orthodoxy, 2024

Here is the best work we published at Mere Orthodoxy in 2024.

Seth TrouttGenderFormation

Best of 2024: Scripts for Healthy Masculinity

One helpful way of discussing good masculinity is to consider the specific roles that men occupy as they pass through life.

Rachel WelcherSexuality

Best of 2024: Chastity as Worship

Rightly understood, chastity is a virtue practiced by the celibate and married alike—a sharply different idea than that promulgated by purity culture.

Jake Meador

2024 Eliot Awards and Observations on the State of Print Media

It's time to honor another year of excellent journalistic writing with this year's 'Eliot Awards.'

Charles JacobTheologyFormation

Pain at Christmas

The first Christmas was not without pain, which means that sometimes it will come with pain for us too as we wait the completion of God's redemptive work.

Bruce ClarkFormation

Grief and Gratitude at Christmas

Both the grief and gratitude that can accompany Christmas are a reminder of the one who made all things and now comes incarnate into our world.