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Cate MacDonaldFormation
In the next few weeks I’ll be writing variations on a theme here at Mere-O and I’m interested to know how you all feel about the theme itself. A few weeks ago we were contacted by an organization that plants […]
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
There's an interesting conversation going on between Craig Carter and David Fitch about the relationship between Christians and the gay community. I don't know Fitch'
Christopher BensonLiteratureFormation
For the last several weeks I have been trying to develop an ecological orientation through the narrative imagination. By ecological orientation, I mean "a new consciousness of the country&
Christopher BensonFormationHermeneutics
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
We all struggle with rest. The paradox of modernity, according to theologian Colin Gunton, is that "a world dedicated to the pursuit of leisure and of machines that save
Jake MeadorLiberal ArtsMarriageTheology and PracticeSocietyFormation
Cross-posted at Notes from a Small Place, where I've had several posts related to marriage lately, hence the disclaimer below. Disclaimer: I kinda-sorta want to apologize
Jake MeadorFormation
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
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
As much as I want to affirm Sayers's understanding of work, I can't quite assent. Yes, there is something dignifying about work, and yes, it absolutely
Jeremy MannFormation
Dorothy Sayers’ presentation of work in her essay Why Work? is a helpful corrective for Christians who’ve lost sight of its theological purposes. Sustained conflict against the culture’s
Cate MacDonaldDevotionalFormation
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
Where I spoke of the "frivolity of beauty," Adolph Saphir speaks of the God-givenness of superfluities. I was first introduced to Saphir by my friend and mentor