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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 […]

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Eyes to See: On Disability, Spiritual Sight, and the Holy Spirit - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

When I was pregnant with my son David Samuel, born in the heat of last July, I wondered if I could make a sort of bargain with God. I knew David would be disabled, and I prayed either that God […]

Rory GrovesFamilyFeaturedEconomics and Business

Resignations and Reunions: Industrialism's Broken Promises - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

An epochal shift is underway; one that social scientists will dissect for decades. And it doesn’t bode well for corporate America. In what economists are calling ‘The Great Resignation’, one-third of the employed workforce—over 47 million laborers—quit their jobs in […]

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The Cost of Nurture - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Christians and even some non-Christian philosophers regularly strive to ‘remember death,’ but few of us seem willing to remember our birth. Only a few paragraphs into Augustine’s Confessions, he recalls the grace of God given to him by his own […]

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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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Suffer the Little Children - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

It is a hard thing not to love one’s children. It is not hard to resent them, to see them as miscreants or burdens, to think them selfish and base, to find their concupiscence by turns infuriating and repugnant. Neither […]

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A Legacy of Letters: Living and Dying Well in the Lives of My Great-Grandparents - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

A tiny Bella, wearing a striped sweater and a mostly toothless grin. My parents, glowingly happy with their new baby. My three great-grandparents, seemingly ageless.

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Deconstructing in the Ruins - Commonplaces

I don’t know a way to start this without some level of personal detail, but I’ll try to be brief: I grew up in a church somewhere right of John MacArthur which, these days, things MacArthur is a progressive. If you […]

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Deconstructing in the Ruins - Commonplaces

I don’t know a way to start this without some level of personal detail, but I’ll try to be brief: I grew up in a church somewhere right of John MacArthur which, these days, things MacArthur is a progressive. If you […]

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Church: Essential or Non-Essential? - The Crossing Blog

With the pandemic, society argues whether church is “essential” or “non-essential.” What about you? How important is Sunday morning church?

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Children, Culture Wars, and Christian Societies | Commonplaces

Children are not soldiers to help us win culture wars. Even so, it is nearly impossible to speak Christianly about the family without attracting ridicule.

Jake MeadorFamily

Children, Culture Wars, and Christian Societies | Commonplaces

Children are not soldiers to help us win culture wars. Even so, it is nearly impossible to speak Christianly about the family without attracting ridicule.