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J. Chase DavisFeaturedCurrent Politicshealth

Public Health After Christendom - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

How are we to consider public health when the health of the public officials themselves would not be recognizable to prior generations? Are we to simply stick our heads in the sand pretending that everything is normal? The CDC has […]

Daniel DormanFeaturedhealth

Portraits of Anxiety in Dostoevsky and Dickens - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

E.M. Forster wrote, “it is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source.” In Aspects of the Novel, Forester explains that while it is the work of the historian to deal with the external details […]

Bella GamboaFamilyFeaturedhealth

A Legacy of Letters: Living and Dying Well in the Lives of My Great-Grandparents - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

A tiny Bella, wearing a striped sweater and a mostly toothless grin. My parents, glowingly happy with their new baby. My three great-grandparents, seemingly ageless.

Matthew LoftusFeaturedhealth

That Others May Live: Fetal Cell Lines and Vaccine Production - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The world breathed a collective sigh of relief at news that multiple vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 were found to be effective. No sooner had this news reached us before there was a moral greaseball gumming up […]

Matthew LoftusFeaturedHealth and Medicinehealth

The Ethics of Healthcare Rationing - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The call comes in the middle of my clinic session at the hospital in rural Kenya where I work. I apologize to the patient in front of me and answer my phone. It’s the emergency department at the hospital in […]

Brandon McGinleyFeaturedCurrent Politicshealth

The Perpetual Motion Machine and the Pandemic | Mere Orthodoxy

The virus unsettles our sanitary security, but the effect is magnified by its jamming the economy. We must confront questions we thought were behind us.

Brad LittlejohnFeaturedCurrent Politicshealth

"No Wealth but Life": Moral Reasoning in a Pandemic | Mere Orthodoxy

Christian freedom means love of neighbor. What does this mean in the face of pandemic and recession? The same as it has always meant.

E. J. HutchinsonFeaturedCurrent Politicshealth

Learning in Quarantine | Mere Orthodoxy

We must do our work. We must do it in unfavorable conditions. We must do it before the specter of Death’s hooked and gnarled finger.

Jake MeadorEconomicshealth

The Post-Liberal State and the (Highly Technical) Goods of Modernity

The reality of local political authority? Si. The de facto abolition of the administrative state? No.

Guest WriterFeaturedembodimentHealth and Medicinehealth

Against an Economy Financed by Human Bodies | Mere Orthodoxy

The late capitalist economy has found many ways of turning the exploitation of human bodies into a booming business.

Matthew LoftusFeaturedHealth and Medicinehealth

Book Review: Between Life and Death by Kathryn Butler | Mere Orthodoxy

Matthew Loftus reviews Kathryn Butler's new book which seeks to provide a Christian framework for thinking about end-of-life medical care.

Jake MeadorEconomicshealth

Is Burnout a Generational Issue or a Class Issue? - Commonplaces

If you haven’t yet, please do read Anne Helen Peterson’s excellent Buzzfeed essay on millennials and burnout. My first reaction to the essay was to agree with nearly every word of it and pass it on to others. But after […]