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Susannah Black RobertsFeaturedFormationJournalJournal 2

When Belief is Agony - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I love being a Christian. I mean, I love Jesus too. But I also love all the rest of it: Brunch after church with friends, hylomorphism, late-night Eucharist on Christmas Eve, and carols and stollen and roast beef and friends’ […]

Ben ChristensonFeaturedEconomics and BusinessFormation

Waiting Tables as Soul Craft - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

During college, I became convinced I would become a consultant. I wasn’t pre-Med and didn’t want to join the Peace Corps, so this seemed to be the best (and only other respectable) option. I listened with childlike wonder as consulting […]

Tessa CarmanFamilyCultureFormationJournalSpring 2025

Why I Don't Like the Term "Homeschool"

All of life is education, regardless of what sort of formal schooling your children participate in.

Anthony ScholleCultureBook ReviewsFormationJournalSpring 2025

"Get Good at Being Gods": Entrepreneurialism and Idolatry

Erik Baker's history of entrepreneurialism is wide-ranging, sometimes too much so. But the moments of greatest clarity are memorable and pack a punch.

Jeff BilbroCultureBook ReviewsFormationJournalSpring 2025

A Love for Reading and Reading for Love

Understanding the unhealthy ways people have sometimes approached reading can help us better understand the technological temptations of our moments.

Matthew LaPineBook ReviewsFormationJournalSpring 2025

Suicide and Persevering in Love

Edith Hall's moving exploration of suicide in classical art is a striking but ultimately inadequate response to the problem of suicide.

Jake MeadorTheologyFormation

Reading Historic Theology Like an Adult

It is no dishonor to our fathers in the faith to extend their thought or dissent from it, nor is it an honor to them to agree unthinkingly.

Rachel WelcherFormationJournalSpring 2025

Don't Trip

The things that so irritate us in the moment are often precisely the things which give meaning and joy to our lives.

Kirsten SandersFamilyMarriageFormationJournalSpring 2025

Forsaking All Others

To have at the end of your life one single story, a promise that was kept, would gesture to all the things you did not choose.

Andrew MenkisFormation

The Memory of a Garden

The dream of going to another place is the longing to return to Eden. But we cannot return. We cannot find or recreate that place in which God placed Adam.

Matt MillerTechnologyFormation

Lauds

We have optimized our lives so much that we have forgotten where we belong, what life that thrums around us beyond our ambitions and devices.

Michael NiebauerTheologyFormation

How to Read the Bible with the Historic Church

Though it has broadly been forgotten today, the church has historically read the Bible in more expansive and literary ways than has been common recently.