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Christopher BensonLiteratureFormation

Developing an Ecological Orientation Through the Narrative Imagination

Developing an Ecological Orientation Through the Narrative Imagination

Christopher BensonFormationHermeneutics

Basil the Great: A Theology of Reading - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

When I taught humanities at a Christian secondary school, I spent the first week or so of the fall semester exploring how Christians should read because I anticipated that the pagan literature of the Greeks and Romans would chafe against […]

Christopher BensonFormation

Time Poverty and the Sabbath

Time Poverty and the Sabbath

Jake MeadorLiberal ArtsMarriageTheology and PracticeSocietyFormation

Nothing Behind the Curtain - Reflections on a Wedding

Nothing Behind the Curtain - Reflections on a Wedding

Jake MeadorFormation

Sayers on Work: What about the Sabbath? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Dorothy Sayers says that work is what we were put on earth to do. And, personally, I want to agree with her. But supposing one accepts that definition of work, how then do we understand the Sabbath?

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

Against "Sacramental" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The brilliant Jake Meador followed up the discussion below on the nature of work by attempting to bring together Sayers and Lewis: My proposed reconciliation of the two views can be stated thus: The world is sacramental (the lowercase s […]

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

Working to Live (or, Sayers v. Lewis)

Working to Live (or, Sayers v. Lewis)

Jeremy MannFormation

Living to Work

Living to Work

Cate MacDonaldDevotionalFormation

Because of My Mother - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

As I type this I am watching a smug and self-important young woman on a Sunday morning show give a monologue on The Pill. On this Mother’s Day, she is telling the nation how great it is that women no […]

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

God Gives the Superfluities

God Gives the Superfluities

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

The Lighthearted Seriousness of Confession

The Lighthearted Seriousness of Confession

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

Playing the Theological Syncretism Card

Playing the Theological Syncretism Card