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Book Review: Philosopher of the Heart by Clare Carlisle | Mere Orthodoxy

Carlisle's book is, in both subject and style, an impressive contribution to Kierkegaard studies. It is not perfect, but it is a fitting study of the man.

Justin HawkinsFeatured

Natural Law from Noah to Milton Friedman | Mere Orthodoxy

David VanDrunen's "Politics After Christendom" presents a jarringly stale political program built on an innovative reading of the Noahic covenant.

Andrew ArndtFeatured

The One God of Katherine Sonderegger - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“Theology awakens a grateful heart.”[1] Thus the first words of Katherine Sonderegger’s remarkable Systematic Theology fall. I began reading theology years ago out of a longing to know the Lord. Desire drove study. It still does.

Josh PaulingFeaturedEconomics and Business

Economics Turn Homeward - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

COVID-19 uncertainties provide a cultural moment for re-evaluating what really constitutes the good life. While the mandatory homecoming of sorts drags on, it sheds fresh and favorable light on home economies of simplicity and some measure of self-sufficiency. Stay-at-home orders […]

William E. BoyceFeaturedCurrent PoliticsHealth and Medicine

The Cross Amidst a Plague: Choosing Cruciformity Over Self-Interest

Love of neighbor is central to the Christian life and Christian piety. Often, especially during times of plague, this love will cost us a great deal.

Joseph LaughonFeaturedCurrent Politics

Reviewing National Conservatism's Policy Agenda | Mere Orthodoxy

Oren Cass's "Once and Future Worker" is the most substantive policy vision offered by national conservatives so far and offers a striking, original vision.

Jane LewisFeatured

Back to the Sources: Notes on Chesterton the Historian | Mere Orthodoxy

Chesterton's critique of modernity was built on a close reading of primary historical sources and of the classic authors of the western church.

JD FlynnFeatured

Ahmaud Arbery and 'National Conversations' | Mere Orthodoxy

In America we have predictable scripts for talking about stories of tragedy. Often, these scripts merely insulate us from the horror of the story itself.

Matthew Lee AndersonFeaturedCurrent Politics

The Politics of Mask-Wearing | Mere Orthodoxy

To compare mask-wearing to duck-and-cover drills is to compare nuclear threats and a pandemic. But these are two dramatically different things.

Sebastian MilbankFeaturedCurrent Politics

The Populists and the Pandemic - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Recently the world commemorated VE day, celebrating the vast global effort to defeat fascism, an inhuman ideology which sacrificed life on the altar of materialism. The Queen gave a speech to her quarantined subjects: declaring that ‘our streets are not […]

S. DormanFeatured

Deus Ex Machina Reversed | Mere Orthodoxy

We are not disoriented, not troubled, confused. We’ve had no blow to the head. We have arrived—not on horseback—to a secure, well-oriented, time.

James WoodFeaturedChurch

Two Cheers for Gregory's Augustinian Civic Liberalism | Mere Orthodoxy

There is much to commend in Eric Gregory's vision of Augustinian liberalism. Unfortunately, his political vision marginalizes the church in very odd ways.