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Gracy OlmsteadFeaturedCreation Care

The Cost of Food in America | Mere Orthodoxy

Food in America is not actually cheap. It is, in fact, quite costly—to the health of food workers, the happiness of animals, and the life of the land.

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Following Christ in the Machine Age: A Conversation with Paul Kingsnorth - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

How do we stay human in a technocratic age? How do we live rooted lives —spiritually and otherwise — in an unsettled time? How do we make sense of life in the modern world? English writer Paul Kingsnorth has been […]

Tessa CarmanFeaturedCreation Care

Becoming a Perennial: A Conversation with Grace Olmstead - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We’ve Left Behind (March 2021) Grace tells the story of her hometown of Emmett, Idaho, where her great-grandfather and great-grandmother lived and farmed, and where her grandparents and parents still live. Through […]

Joshua HeavinFeaturedCreation Care

The Dust Bowl, Remembered - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In clean, cool air the morning after a thunderstorm, while blazing pink and golden light spills over the horizon before becoming a deep cerulean crown over a sweltering summer afternoon, it is difficult to imagine the conditions in Texas only […]

Joshua HeavinFeaturedCreation Care

The Virus and the Earth | Mere Orthodoxy

Though it has not been discussed as much, the pandemic has presented us with many reasons to take the threat of climate change more seriously.

Andrew SpencerFeaturedCreation Care

Earth Day 2020: Toward a Humane Environmentalism

Some environmental activism in recent years has taken an anti-human turn. Such a move is both unnecessary and harmful to the environmental movement.

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Why Protecting Rivers is a Conservative Cause | Mere Orthodoxy

Clean drinking water is a good worth protecting—even if it means one less suburb, or a few more regulations for oil and gas companies.

Tessa CarmanFeaturedCreation Care

Farmers and Humanists in an Age of Crisis | Mere Orthodoxy

Practicing resurrection in a technocratic, throwaway culture can begin with returning to the soil, where the death of the seed yields life.

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An Interview with Laura Dunn, Director of "The Seer" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Tomorrow I hope to publish a brief review of Laura Dunn’s new film “The Seer.” It’s a unique film and a hard one to pin down because while it is a portrait of Wendell Berry, Berry himself is never actually […]

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Evangelicals are not modern gnostics. We're materialists.

Contrary to the attacks of many critics, evangelicals are not modern gnostics. If anything, we are materialists.

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Genetically Modified Food: Mark Lynas and Your Inner Luddite

What has genetically modified food to do with Christian theology? Does genetically modified food fit with a Christian ethic?

Cate MacDonaldCreation Care

The Gospel According to Trees: Animal Kingdom

The Gospel According to Trees: Animal Kingdom