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Concentric Roots - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In the twenty-sixth canto of Dante’s Inferno, the pilgrim and his guide come across two figures encased in flame. Virgil reveals to Dante that within this single fire dwells Diomedes and Ulysses, grieving over the horse that penetrated Troy. They […]

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The World Becomes Light Again - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I have long had an obsession with books. Since middle school, at least, I have loved to sit by a shelf and examine the titles, to arrange them, to examine their cover art, to read the summaries and flip through […]

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Water is a Single Substance - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps (Ps. 148:7) Water is a single substance. Each and every instantiation of the liquid merges with every other. Each molecule composes the same body, longing for union with its […]

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Not for Bread Alone: Notes on Good Work - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

On a number of the shelves in my home sit baskets that I have made myself. I took up the craft out of a need for contrast in what is a largely abstract existence, mostly consisting of reading and computer […]