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Bob ThuneBook ReviewsJournal 6Journal

The Case for Changing the Scorecard in Education

Ivan Illich's bracing 'Deschooling Society' offers an approach to education that Christians would do well to consider and adopt.

Myles WerntzBook ReviewsJournal 6Journal

Augustine, Slavery, and Damaged Goods

Two recent books on slavery in the thought of Augustine confront us with the question of how to regard the saint's reliance on slavery in his theology.

Ana SiljakBook ReviewsJournal 6Journal

We're All George Smiley Now

50 years after the publication of 'Tinker, Tailer, Soldier, Spy' our low-trust society has changed, such that now we're all George Smiley.

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] […]

Addison Del MastroFeaturedJournalJournal 2

Finding Belonging in the City - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Chad Bryant. Prague: Belonging in the Modern City. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021. 352pp, $29.95. Historian Chad Bryant has produced a moving and deeply informative book in Prague: Belonging in the Modern City. The book’s structure, consisting chiefly of five […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedJournalJournal 2

On Loving Newcastle - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Michael Chaplin. Newcastle United Stole My Heart: Sixty Years in Black and White. London: Hurst and Co, 2021. 280pp, $25.00. The first thing to say is that Michael Chaplin’s Newcastle United Stole My Heart is one of the most delightfully […]