Mere Orthodoxy

A 'Personless' Purity Isn't Pure At All

Chase Krug — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Every now and then you come across a quote so profound that you’re forced to reframe your thinking on an issue. This one initiated a renovation of my thinking on sexual purity:

The Beholders

Brianna Lambert — Thu, 07 May 2026 11:00:00 GMT

The following excerpt is adapted from Brianna Lambert, Created to Play (InterVarsity Press, 2026).

Motherhood is Fun

Nadya Williams — Wed, 06 May 2026 11:00:00 GMT

When it comes to news, it’s the craziest and most outrageous stories that sell. The New York Times and various major news outlets regularly run stories on the stiff motherhood penalty for women’s careers, grimly state that “Motherhood should come with a warning label,” or liken it to “a trap you can’t escape.” I’ve argued elsewhere that “how we talk about motherhood matters,” but right now I’d like to reflect on something else that is insufficiently considered. It’s a simple point, but an important one: Modern motherhood is fun, really.

Common Life After Social Collapse

Andrew Spencer — Wed, 06 May 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Chris Smaje. Finding Lights in a Dark Age: Sharing Land, Work and Craft. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2025. $24.95. 256 pp.

Polishing Kernels: Bodily Control as New Gnosis

Hayden Nesbit — Tue, 05 May 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Recently a split image was posted online of actor Tom Hardy: on one side was his much younger self; on the other was a current photo bearing the less flattering marks of aging. The caption was a single, flabbergasted question: What happened?!

Writers vs Content Producers

jakemeador@gmail.com (Jake Meador) — Tue, 05 May 2026 11:00:00 GMT

In a recent post on his Substack, Samuel James discussed the difference between being a writer and a content creator:

Buildings That Preach: The 2025 World Building of the Year and the Crisis of Beauty

Phil Cotnoir — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:00:00 GMT

At the recent World Architecture Festival—an annual international gathering of leading figures where prestigious prizes are awarded—the biggest prize of all was awarded to a church. As the news article on Archinect.com put it, “World Building of the Year 2025 awarded to minimalist concrete church by Fernando Menis." We learn the basic facts from the opening paragraph:

Rebelling Against Nostalgia and Self-Deception

Brian Pell — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Is there anything to rebel against in your thirties? That’s a question any millennial lover-of-punk-rock or any formerly angsty teenager will occasionally find themselves asking, and it’s the question I found myself asking as Joyce Manor released their latest album.

1 Corinthians 13:1, 6

E. J. Hutchinson — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:00:01 GMT

If I speak with men's and angels' tongues,
But have not love, I'm only noise—
Clashing cymbal, clanging gong,
Unmeaning Babel, demon's tongue.
Though hot the breath that fills the lungs,
If, cold to truth, I won't rejoice,
My voice of bronze, my thousand tongues
That have not love are only noise.

A Farewell to Cinema from a Christian Who Loves It

Andrew Barber — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:00:01 GMT

“Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever… Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.” ~The Great Gatsby