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Journey Into Understanding: Adapting George MacDonald’s Phantastes - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Cave Pictures Publishing is creating a graphic novel adaptation of George MacDonald’s classic fairy tale allegory Phantastes, a work that famously was a major influence on a young C.S. Lewis. I got to discuss the project (currently on Kickstarter) with […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism

Ecclesial Realignment After the Culture Wars - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Last summer, the recently retired minister Ray Ortlund announced that he had been appointed a canon theologian, a teaching office in the Anglican Church of North America (ACNA). That a recently retired minister who held a PhD and had taught […]

Ashley HalesFeaturedFormation

That Word Does Not Mean What You Think it Means: Freedom, the Aridity of Grace, and a More Spacious Life - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I was overwhelmed with the limits on my time and body: with four small children aged 6 and under, and as the primary caregiver, I was the sun around which they orbited. My limbs and body were the rays that […]

Matthew LoftusFeaturedhealth

Trauma, Attachment, and Self-Care: What Everyone Should Know - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Trauma. Once a word that solely referred to a physical wound, it is now far more popularly discussed with regards to psychological wounds. One can read dozens of books about trauma and find countless memes floating around discussing it, but […]

Bruce ClarkFeaturedChurch

Ten Theses on Homosexuality and the Church - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I wrote the following to clarify my own thoughts and also to (indirectly) respond to some recent discussions and developments within my own denomination (the PCA). But at present here are my own reflections on homosexuality today as a pastor […]

J. Chase DavisFeaturedCurrent Politicshealth

Public Health After Christendom - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

How are we to consider public health when the health of the public officials themselves would not be recognizable to prior generations? Are we to simply stick our heads in the sand pretending that everything is normal? The CDC has […]

Christine NorvellFeaturedEconomics and Business

Burnout, According to Solomon - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I’ve made huge lists of everything I’ve done in my short life. I’ve accomplished so much, and I can show you my work, says Solomon. It’s too familiar. Lists have been a lifeline for me as a working mom, a […]

Daniel DormanFeaturedhealth

Portraits of Anxiety in Dostoevsky and Dickens - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

E.M. Forster wrote, “it is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source.” In Aspects of the Novel, Forester explains that while it is the work of the historian to deal with the external details […]

Susannah Black RobertsFeatured

In Memoriam: Gerald Russello - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Gerald Russello (July 27, 1971-November 7, 2021) graduated from Georgetown in 1992, and got his JD from New York University Law School in 1996. He served as a managing director in the legal department of Bear, Stearns & Co., and […]

Peter LeithartBibleFeaturedJournalJournal 1

The Book of Revelation is for the Church - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Timothy Beal. The Book of Revelation: A Biography. Lives of Great Religious Books. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. $26.95, 288 pp. First things first: Let me state my disagreement with two premises of Timothy Beal’s “biography” of the Book of […]

Brandon McGinleyFamilyFeaturedJournalJournal 1

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 […]

Joy ClarksonFeaturedJournalJournal 1

Boredom in a World Without Windows - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

James Dankert and John D. Eastwood. Out of My Skull: The Psychology of Boredom. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. $27.95, 282 pp. In a study where participants were instructed to sit in a room with nothing to do for only […]