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Why We Need an Interfaith Gravedigger's Guild | Mere Orthodoxy

Many Americans do not have the means to obtain a dignified burial after their death. Christians, Muslims, and Jews ought to do something about that.

Jake MeadorFeatured

Book Review: Kids These Days by Malcolm Harris | Mere Orthodoxy

Harris offers a devastating indictment of the late capitalist order, but because he lacks an account of personhood he struggles to define an alternative.

Miles SmithFeaturedHistory

Who's Afraid of John Calvin? Answer: Thomas Jefferson

The Virginian founding father and arch-liberal feared that Calvinists, not Catholics, would be the undoing of his experiment in political liberalism.

Alan FimisterFeatured

The Lost City: What's the use of cities in a world of states?

Our cities have become so large they are no longer human-scale communities. They also are not states. So what exactly are they?

Jake MeadorFeaturedChurch

On the Traditionalists and the Protestants | Mere Orthodoxy

The relationship between divine law and ecclesial authority articulated by Cardinal Burke sounds strikingly similar to Protestant teaching on the matter.

John SheltonFeatured

Putting on Avatars, Putting on Christ | Mere Orthodoxy

What are we to make of avatars? Are they a rebellion against the givenness of our bodies and ourselves as creations—or are they a ‘cheeky’ avenue to virtue?

Isabel ChenotFeatured

Anatomy of Glory - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Suppose the reformer stops saying that a good woman may be like God and begins by saying that God is like a good woman. Suppose he says that we might just as well pray to ‘Our Mother which art in […]

Jake MeadorFeatured

Thomas Aquinas Reviews Worship Songs: Breathe | Mere Orthodoxy

In which the Angelic Doctor analyzes Darlene Zschech's popular worship song "Breathe."

Casey ShuttFeaturedEducation

Violent Schools in a Violent World | Mere Orthodoxy

The problem for our schools is a flawed telos that is too much in step with the cadence of the wild. An essentially violent world begets violent schools.

Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

The Democrats (Probably) Won't Outflank Themselves | Mere Orthodoxy

Running a leftist campaign may not be electoral suicide; it may be a reasoned choice based on a belief that political persuasion is still possible.

E. J. HutchinsonFeatured

How Melanchthon Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Jesus

There are no extra points for thanking God for the salvation offered to us in Christ in meter; but there is extra pleasure.

Scott BeauchampFeatured

An Intercourse with Ghosts: The Unabomber, Irony, and Terror

1. To write about Theodore J. Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, is to sit for a moment with the ghosts of his victims peering over your shoulder. The dead and the maimed, both. Just as much as you try to […]