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“Look at this ear I cut off, Lord!”

When a 19-year-old is in the cage stage, it's understandable. When a man three times his age still is, it's sad.

Sarah ClarkFeatured

Permanent Crisis in the Humanities - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon, Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021, 320 pp., $27 pb. At my master’s graduation last spring, the dean of our school gave the commencement address. He began with […]

Jake MeadorChurch

Safety - Commonplaces

One of the more formative experiences of my Christian life came a couple days after my arrival at Rochester L’Abri. It was Sunday evening, which meant high tea. It was an old L’Abri tradition dating back to the Schaeffer’s: Sunday […]

Jake MeadorChurch

Safety - Commonplaces

One of the more formative experiences of my Christian life came a couple days after my arrival at Rochester L’Abri. It was Sunday evening, which meant high tea. It was an old L’Abri tradition dating back to the Schaeffer’s: Sunday […]

Brewer EberlyFeaturedhealth

Three Challenges for Talking About Health - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Sandro Galea. Well: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 274pp, $28.95. One of my favorite ways to orient new medical students on the clinical team is to riff on […]

Bonnie KristianFeaturedBook ReviewsIssue 4

Spinning Toward Autocracy

Spinning Toward Autocracy

Jake MeadorMusic

Easter

Easter

Jake MeadorMusic

Good Friday

Good Friday

Jake Meador

Good Friday - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

As is our annual custom, we are not publishing any new essays, reviews, or other content during the tail end of Holy Week. Instead, hear these musical reflections and consider the extent to which God went to rescue his people.

Rachel Roth AldhizerFeaturedFormation

Two Truths for Dark Days - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Like many parents, I’ve sent my kindergartener to school recently with a pit in my stomach. Horror of the recent school shooting has ripped across the nation in the last week. My mind is preoccupied with terror. My kindergartener attends […]

Brad EastFeaturedEvangelicalismTheology and PracticeCurrent PoliticsSocietyIssue 4

Once More, Church and Culture

Once More, Church and Culture

J. Chase DavisFeaturedChurchEvangelicalism

Colonized by the City - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We planted a church in Boulder under no illusions regarding its warranted reputation as one of the most left wing cities in our nation. It is no secret that Boulder is a bastion of progressivism and regularly listed as one […]