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Susannah Black Roberts

Susannah Black Roberts is senior editor at Plough. She is a native Manhattanite. She and her husband, the theologian Alastair Roberts, split their time between Manhattan and the West Midlands of the UK.

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Susannah Black Roberts

Susannah Black Roberts is senior editor at Plough. She is a native Manhattanite. She and her husband, the theologian Alastair Roberts, split their time between Manhattan and the West Midlands of the UK.

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Rise up, wretched man: enough tears have flowed. - Radio Free Thulcandra

Several months ago, I went with a group of friends– mostly church people, from Emmanuel Anglican– to see a production of Euripides’ Herakles, in the original Greek, directed by our friend Caleb Simone. It was part of his doctoral work, […]

Susannah Black RobertsArtPolitics

Rise up, wretched man: enough tears have flowed. - Radio Free Thulcandra

Several months ago, I went with a group of friends– mostly church people, from Emmanuel Anglican– to see a production of Euripides’ Herakles, in the original Greek, directed by our friend Caleb Simone. It was part of his doctoral work, […]

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They Know Who Their Friends Are - Radio Free Thulcandra

In the last couple of weeks, one of the more interesting hypotheses to rear its head on Twitter is that the Alabama and Georgia abortion bans were engineered by white nationalists. Let’s check in: “The pro-lifers aren’t exactly wrong when […]

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They Know Who Their Friends Are - Radio Free Thulcandra

In the last couple of weeks, one of the more interesting hypotheses to rear its head on Twitter is that the Alabama and Georgia abortion bans were engineered by white nationalists. Let’s check in: “The pro-lifers aren’t exactly wrong when […]

Susannah Black RobertsPoliticsEthics

We'll make that great heart what we want it to be. - Radio Free Thulcandra

Just throwing this up here for future reference, after thinking and writing a bit about about Margaret Sanger’s intense Lothrop Stoddard fangirling, and the eugenicist origins of Planned Parenthood: “Man has got to take charge of Man. That means, remember, […]

Susannah Black RobertsPoliticsEthics

We'll make that great heart what we want it to be. - Radio Free Thulcandra

Just throwing this up here for future reference, after thinking and writing a bit about about Margaret Sanger’s intense Lothrop Stoddard fangirling, and the eugenicist origins of Planned Parenthood: “Man has got to take charge of Man. That means, remember, […]

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On Rebuilding - Radio Free Thulcandra

Yesterday, I guest-adjuncted for a friend’s class of Baylor students, who are on a sort of NYC Study Abroad semester (Yes, NYC is Abroad from Texas. Texas, after all, is on the continent.) The class was meant to be a […]

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On Rebuilding - Radio Free Thulcandra

Yesterday, I guest-adjuncted for a friend’s class of Baylor students, who are on a sort of NYC Study Abroad semester (Yes, NYC is Abroad from Texas. Texas, after all, is on the continent.) The class was meant to be a […]

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Sealed in Blood: Aristopopulism and the City of Man | Mere Orthodoxy

Political life begins in desire--desire for a certain sort of life for a beloved place. And the means we use to pursue that life follow from those desires.

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Movie Review: A Wrinkle in Time | Mere Orthodoxy

If Christianity has been erased in the movie, the particular flavor of Madeleine L’Engle’s Christianity is in danger of being erased in the hot takes.

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Jesus the Imagination: A New Magazine Launches in Midtown Manhattan

Jesus the Imagination: A New Magazine Launches in Midtown Manhattan

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The Most Unlikely Convert: Lewis, Theater, and the Friendship of Debate

Max McLean's play "The Most Unlikely Convert," succeeds at showing us what C.S. Lewis's conversion was like for him: a thrilling and surprising adventure.