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When the Therapeutic God Isn't Sufficient - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

There was blood everywhere. The dead child – a baby of about 20 weeks gestation – just delivered, lay at one end of the table. The nurse took the body away. My wife, at the other end, laying in anguish […]

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Ruth's Prequel to the Christmas Story - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Every good story has a good back-story. Ridley Scott made two prequels to his popular Alien franchise. This past year Amazon offered Rings of Power to the Lord of the Rings trilogy as a prequel. The Godfather had The Godfather […]

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Esther and the Theology of Thanksgiving - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Thanksgiving is our most Christian holiday. Just ask the Puritans. They did not give us Thanksgiving as an annual holiday after a great feast to celebrate a year of survival in America and then say, “This was fun, let’s do […]

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Ecclesiastes' Cure for Depression - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Twenty years ago, I was depressed. I was 37 years old living in a nice home in Kentucky. Just a couple of months earlier I thought I was set up for the life I had been working so hard for. […]

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Objects of Doubt - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Three months to live. That was what my father heard when he went into the Mayo clinic for treatment for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in the Spring of 1986. That proved accurate. My father made his living on the business-side of health […]