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The American Style in Traditionalist Parenting - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Paula S. Fass. The End of American Childhood: A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. $19.95, 352 pp. Perhaps more than anything else, Paula S. Fass’s learned and engaging […]

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The Church Speaks to the World: On Pope Francis's Urbi et Orbi Blessing

Pope Francis's benediction was a signal that the Roman Church wishes to speak not with the world but to the world—and to call it to life in Christ.

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The Perpetual Motion Machine and the Pandemic | Mere Orthodoxy

The virus unsettles our sanitary security, but the effect is magnified by its jamming the economy. We must confront questions we thought were behind us.

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Stop Making Hospitality Complicated | Mere Orthodoxy

If we think "hospitality" means "entertaining" and "serving gourmet meals in an immaculately clean house," we'll probably never practice actual hospitality.

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The End of Bourgeois Christian Politics | Mere Orthodoxy

If Christianity stops being socially acceptable, what possible incentive can there be for Christians to keep chasing after middle-class respectability?