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Divine Presence in Dark Nights of the Soul - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

My argument begins in the most cliché of fashion, I grew up a Christian home-schooler reading the Chronicles of Narnia for the first time at a pretty young age. It was a rainy November day and my mom had built […]

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Sailing and the Christian Life - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“But here and there it shines out with a great and flashing beauty, like a light set upon a high place above the stormy or tranquil waters where we voyage. And the sceptic will say: is the beacon for me, […]

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The Ordinary Beauty of Flower Bouquets - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing – to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from.” – Till We Have Faces As I type this I’m staring at a bouquet […]

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In Praise of Reading Aloud - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

It felt a bit awkward at first, a group of friends in their mid twenties sitting around in my library in an old Capitol Hill row house. We had all brought our copies of various Tolkien, some with a well-loved […]

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The 12 Days of Christmas: Christmas Day | Mere Orthodoxy

Bonhoeffer likened the coming of Christ to the sound a trapped miner hears when rescue is drawing close. He responds to the sounds with shouts of joy.