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The Discipleship of Work - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

When we moved to our farm several years ago with a toddler and newborn in tow, we mainly had it in mind to experience a bit of the country life: to plant a large garden and perhaps raise a few […]

Jake MeadorFamilyFeaturedFormation

Threnody for a Good Man - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Mat Feltner died at a hospital in Lincoln this week. Obviously it wasn’t Feltner himself — he lives nowhere outside of the mind of Wendell Berry, the pages of his novels, and the imaginations of the many thousands of us […]

Kelly GivensFamilyFeaturedEducation

Teaching Children to See - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

This past winter, my six-year-old began each day looking out the window. I would hear him roll out of bed, feet hit the floor, his footsteps moving toward one of the windows in his room. I knew what he was […]

Rachel Roth AldhizerFamilyFeaturedFormation

The Contradiction of Healing Prayer - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.” I think about this verse often. I am not sure who counts as a righteous person, and I’m not sure how to qualify “working.” The sentence before […]

Ian MosleyFamilyFeaturedCultureEconomics and Business

The Masculinity Crisis is an Economic Crisis - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill has led to much reflection on the state of the modern evangelical soul. One thing that stood out from the podcast is that Driscoll and many like him have capitalized on the perception […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyEducation

why "education doesn't work" - Doctors Without Boredom

There are two primary problems with "failing schools" and American children. Don't confuse them.

Matthew LoftusFamilyEducation

why "education doesn't work" - Doctors Without Boredom

There are two primary problems with "failing schools" and American children. Don't confuse them.

Grace HumblesFamilyFeatured

"Unpaid Gestation" and the Abolition of the Family - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Every day, 385,000 newborn babies enter the world. A fledgling group of theorists and writers is interested in reimagining how we think about these births and the children they produce. Using the provocative tagline “Abolish the Family,” this group of […]

Bill MeloneFamilyFeatured

A Theology of Infertility - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

After years of secondary infertility, my wife and I discovered she was pregnant on Father’s Day of 2016. It was a stunning moment for us, a seemingly miraculous answer to prayers that we had mostly given up on. But three […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureHistoryEthicsEconomicsEducation

the liberal order and its haters - Doctors Without Boredom

What we mean when we talk about "the liberal order" or "liberalism" and why it's destroying us.

Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureHistoryEthicsEconomicsEducation

the liberal order and its haters - Doctors Without Boredom

What we mean when we talk about "the liberal order" or "liberalism" and why it's destroying us.

Jake MeadorFamilyEconomics

Opportunities for Renewal After the Sexual Revolution - Commonplaces

Matt Yglesias has an astute piece noting some reasons for concern amongst progressives re: the long string of success their movement has enjoyed with regards to LGBT+ issues: We had a roughly 10-year period of political routs (starting with the […]