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Leah Libresco SargeantFeaturedEconomics and BusinesshealthJournalJournal 3

How to Value Caring Work - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Immediately before Jesus institutes the sacrament of the Eucharist at the Last Supper, he kneels before his disciples to wash their feet. Peter objects to being served by his Lord, finding it improper, but Jesus tells him that, “Unless I […]

Tessa CarmanFeaturedCultureCreation CareJournalJournal 3

Following Christ in the Machine Age: A Conversation with Paul Kingsnorth - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

How do we stay human in a technocratic age? How do we live rooted lives —spiritually and otherwise — in an unsettled time? How do we make sense of life in the modern world? English writer Paul Kingsnorth has been […]

Brad LittlejohnFeaturedEthicsEconomics and BusinessJournalJournal 3

A Theology of Money - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Among the many sayings of Jesus that have echoed down through the ages, few have continued to sound so loudly or uncomfortably in our ears as his warning, “You cannot serve both God and Mammon.” But this does not keep […]

Colin RedemerFeaturedEconomics and BusinessCurrent PoliticsJournalJournal 3

Unions are Dead; Long Live Unions - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Oren Cass’s book The Once and Future Worker is among the most important in living memory on the subject of labor from the conservative perspective. He instinctively gets that there is a pre-economic political relationship in which all economic activity […]

Katelyn Walls SheltonFamilyFeaturedJournalJournal 3

Flawed Myths - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Lyz Lenz. Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women. New York: Bold Type Books, 2020. 240pp, $26. At church, I was taught that if a woman denied sex to her husband, he would find sex elsewhere. At church, […]

Chris KrychoFeaturedEconomics and BusinessFormationJournalJournal 3

The Great Unmooring - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Richard Sennett. The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism. New York: WW Norton, 2000. 176pp, $15.99. Anne Helen Petersen and Charlie Warzel. Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from […]

Charlie ClarkFeaturedEthicsEconomics and BusinessJournalJournal 3

Good Work - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We hunted for steel along flat-bottom train rails—glass blanketing the gravel track bed like chicken feed, jimson weed between creosote-steeped timbers— picked over buckled trailers and garbage stacks: cracked pump heads, mower blades, band saws rusted mid-cut. The clang of […]

Rory GrovesFamilyFeaturedFormationJournalJournal 3

The Discipleship of Work - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

When we moved to our farm several years ago with a toddler and newborn in tow, we mainly had it in mind to experience a bit of the country life: to plant a large garden and perhaps raise a few […]

Matthew MillinerFeaturedChurchJournalJournal 3

The Mega Church Born Again - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I arrived in the Thessaloniki airport and passed by the customs office, its door casually propped open, and saw everything I had come to Greece to avoid: a framed reproduction of Warner Sallman’s blonde-haired, blue-eyed American Jesus, testimony to the […]

Myles WerntzFeaturedCultureEconomics and BusinessJournalJournal 3

Corporations Can't Love You - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In a recent guest column at Anne Helen Peterson’s Culture Study, Wendy Robinson wrote about her forays into the world of Peloton, on a growing phenomenon: the lack of community which people find within the ecosystems created by consumer products.[1] […]