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Time is Always Time: Christopher Nolan, T. S. Eliot, and Creatureliness

Christopher Nolan has a long, well-documented fascination with time. But what his films have not been able to do is show a way of escaping creatureliness.

Dave Strunk and Ben RuyackFeaturedChurch

The Four Quadrants of Church Life in the Gray Zone - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Any pastor of a church over 70 people[1] has to develop some kind of rhythm or strategy with which they encourage their church into greater fruitfulness in Christ. For better or ill, we’ve been calling these things ‘programs’ for some […]

Leah Libresco SargeantFeaturedEconomics and BusinesshealthJournalJournal 3

How to Value Caring Work - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Immediately before Jesus institutes the sacrament of the Eucharist at the Last Supper, he kneels before his disciples to wash their feet. Peter objects to being served by his Lord, finding it improper, but Jesus tells him that, “Unless I […]

Tara ThiekeFamilyFeaturedEducation

Cats and Sixty Foot Whales: Reflections on Children's Books

Wonder is the birthright of every child and yet the vast majority of contemporary children's lit is designed to beat wonder out of even the smallest child.

Gracy OlmsteadFamilyFeatured

Markets and the Strangulation of the American Family | Mere Orthodoxy

If the American people care about the family, it's high time we start to act like it because, as two recent books show, the American family is struggling.

Kirsten SandersFamilyFeaturedAnthropology

Tethered Still - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I am a mother and a theologian. These two facts belong together, inextricable as they are for me and my experience of them. I was pregnant with my first child as I began my doctoral work; I carried her to […]

Eric MillerFeaturedEducationEconomics and Business

The Market Made Me Do It: The Scandal of the Evangelical College - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Mark Noll’s The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind turned twenty-five last year. If we know a classic by its ability to speak across eras, one single event from this past summer is enough to assure everyone of the continuing tragic […]

Mike AustinFeaturedCurrent Politics

Guns and the Shaping of Character | Mere Orthodoxy

One of the questions that seldom comes up in gun debates is the ways in which gun ownership and use can shape character for good and for bad.

Joy ClarksonFeaturedEducation

Against Textbooks: Why We Need Bigger Stories | Mere Orthodoxy

Textbooks are often harmful to education because they reduce complex disciplines down to bite-sized facts which can be learned and repeated on a test.

Tessa CarmanFeatured

Jane Austen and Christian Hope: On "Austen Years" by Rachel Cohen

Rachel Cohen. The Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2020. 304 pp, $28. “We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been […]

Gracy OlmsteadFeaturedCreation Care

The Cost of Food in America | Mere Orthodoxy

Food in America is not actually cheap. It is, in fact, quite costly—to the health of food workers, the happiness of animals, and the life of the land.

Brad EdwardsFeaturedCultureTechnologyChurch

The Church Amongst the Counter-Institutions - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I watched The Social Dilemma far later than most people not living under a rock. I expected a serious documentary that forecasted serious consequences with a tone of (even more) serious urgency and fear to drive the point home. If […]