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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 […]

Bella GamboaFamilyFeaturedhealth

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.

Jake MeadorFamilyChurch

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 […]

Colleen LuleyChurch ResourcesFamily

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?

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.

Matthew LoftusFamilyEducation

Public Education, Justice, and Solidarity - Doctors Without Boredom

The insanity of New York's preschool interviews shows how broken meritocracy is. But justice is more than just sending your kid to a diverse school.

Daniel DeCarloFamilyFeatured

Love in the Time of Jordan Peterson | Mere Orthodoxy

Jordan Peterson's project is largely about reconciling disillusioned young men to a neo-liberal order that otherwise doesn't have room for them.

Myles WerntzFamilyFeaturedEthics

The Burden of Parenting: In Praise of Christian Simplicity | Mere Orthodoxy

Christian simplicity is not only a call to a certain way of material life, it is a call toward orienting our lives toward the God who is simple.

Matthew LoftusFamily

Jenny & Tyler, "A Boy & a Girl (We're Getting Older)" - Doctors Without Boredom

Sorry there was no post yesterday. Today I wanted to share a sweet music video from Jenny & Tyler’s latest record, There Will Be A Song:

Matthew LoftusFamily

The Tech-Wise Family Challenge - Doctors Without Boredom

My wife and I read Andy Crouch’s The Tech-Wise Family last year and really enjoyed it. (We have also really enjoyed putting some of its recommendations into practice! Now, there’s a 21-day challenge you can do with your family, starting […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureEthicsEducation

education and all God's children - Doctors Without Boredom

I really appreciated D.L. Mayfield’s essay about educating our children and “gifted and talented” programs: What is the right relationship to educational choice for the Christian? It’s complicated, and I often think about what Paul was trying to communicate in […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyCulture

what if there's nothing to assimilate to? - Doctors Without Boredom

Shadi Hamid continues to be indispensable in thinking through issues of identity, belief, and assimilation in America: In short, Muslims are becoming more integrated, but they are becoming more integrated within only one half of the country, the Democratic one. […]