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Kyle WilliamsFeaturedEconomics and Business

Happiness, Virtue, and the Bastard Science - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Happiness is a personal problem. Or so it may seem. Consider the self-help section. A library of recent books offers just the right mindset, self-care regimen, or practical hack for troubled souls who, presumably, hope that one more piece of […]

Gracy OlmsteadFeaturedCreation CareCurrent Politics

Why Protecting Rivers is a Conservative Cause | Mere Orthodoxy

Clean drinking water is a good worth protecting—even if it means one less suburb, or a few more regulations for oil and gas companies.

Daniel DeCarloFeatured

Hinterland: Review of an Apocalypse - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Shattered souls and ruined lives are the plot, and the ever-burgeoning, post-industrial wastelands created by the forces of global capitalism are the setting in Phil A. Neel’s gripping and brutal new book Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict. […]

Brian MesimerFeatured

Leviathan, Zarathustra, and the End(s) of Liberalism | Mere Orthodoxy

To sustain itself liberalism must receive moral content from outside itself. In the absence of such content, it will fracture and break.

Jake MeadorFeatured

The Freedom of the Trad - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Freddie De Boer has a typically sharp post up at his personal blog analyzing the ‘trad’ trend in some (mostly culturally elite) social circles. Do read the whole thing, but this graf gets at the main critique nicely: Here’s the […]

T. Wyatt ReynoldsFeatured

Book Review: The Genealogical Adam and Eve by Joshua Swamidass

Wyatt Reynolds reviews Swamidass's intriguing proposal for talking about origins with a particular focus on the question of common ancestry.

Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism

Notes on Christianity Today's Impeachment Editorial | Mere Orthodoxy

Many of the responses to Mark Galli's editorial are silly, but one in particular was very good and worth considering at greater length.

Joshua HeavinFeatured

Book Review: The Decadent Society by Ross Douthat | Mere Orthodoxy

Contrary to the straightforward decline narratives popular on the right, Douthat persuasively argues that we may be in a period of stable decadence.

Cameron ShafferFeaturedEvangelicalism

Our Fathers Left Us Evangelicalism | Mere Orthodoxy

Our fathers left us evangelicalism. We can, and ought, to leave our children something better.

Guest WriterFeaturedFormation12 Days of Christmas

12 Days of Christmas: January 2 - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks before me, […]

Katelyn Walls SheltonFeaturedFormation12 Days of Christmas

12 Days of Christmas: January 1, Feast of the Holy Name - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.” And they went with […]

Caleb WaitFeatured

The Substance and Accidents of Star Wars | Mere Orthodoxy

The Rise of Skywalker looks like Star Wars, but that's all; it's a shell of a film with an outer lier that attempts to mask the film's emptiness.