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Rachel Roth AldhizerChurchFormation

The Last Words We Need to Hear: An All Saints Day Meditation

Tim Keller's final words remind us of the Gospel as we mark this All Saints Day.

Simon StokesFormation

Running the Race in a Secular Age

The Christian life is arduous as it ever was, but what was once a race that could be done in company and with mile markers often is done only in the dark.

Kevin BrownChurchFormation

The Call to John 17 Unity

The call to Christian unity given to us by Christ in John 17 is not conditional upon our circumstances or political context.

Christina StantonFormation

The St James Massacre and Forgiveness

The call to forgive is not tangential to Christian piety, but is the beating heart of it.

Alex FoglemanPhilosophyFormation

Does God Want You to be Happy?

Does God want us to be happy? It's a good question, but the best way to answer it is to complicate it first and then reply. St Augustine shows us the way.

Jake MeadorFeaturedFormation

The Doom of Choice - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Choice is one of Tolkien’s great preoccupations in The Lord of the Rings. He is fascinated by the existential challenge that confronts one at certain moments in life. I do not think they come often. You’re presented with two options. In […]

Stephanie BennettFeaturedFormation

Jeanne Guyon: Learning to Pray in the Digital Age from an Imprisoned Mystic - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon (1648–1717) discovered a particular discipline of prayer in which she could inhabit the “peace of God in the very midst of oppression and intense hardship.”[1] Her autobiography and books of Biblical study are […]

Matthew LoftusFormation

“Look at this ear I cut off, Lord!”

When a 19-year-old is in the cage stage, it's understandable. When a man three times his age still is, it's sad.

Rachel Roth AldhizerFeaturedFormation

Two Truths for Dark Days - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Like many parents, I’ve sent my kindergartener to school recently with a pit in my stomach. Horror of the recent school shooting has ripped across the nation in the last week. My mind is preoccupied with terror. My kindergartener attends […]

Joseph RheaFeaturedFormation

The Ministry of Salt - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

There Israel encamped before the mountain, 3 while Moses went up to God. The Lord called to him out of the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel: 4 ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to […]

Joshua HeavinFeaturedFormation

Deconversion and the Cross - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

What has God promised us about our lives, in the here and now? One of the earliest works of Christian theology is Origen of Alexandria’s On First Principles; a case can be made that it is our oldest, extant text […]

Matthew EmersonFeaturedFormation

Descent - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

At the beginning of The Divine Comedy, in Canto I of Inferno, Dante opens with these famous lines: