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Susannah Black RobertsPoliticsHistory

Auschwitz - Radio Free Thulcandra

The only Auschwitz survivor I knew well was my friend Claire Fiala. She died about 18 months ago; she was my neighbor, and I spent a couple of winters shoveling her walk, until, in the last two years of her […]

Matthew ArboPoliticsFeaturedChurch

Come, Desire of Nations, Come: An Advent Reflection | Mere Orthodoxy

Wesley's evocative line in "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing," is a reference to Haggai. Looking closely at the text can help us better understand the hymn.

Matthew LoftusPoliticsFeatured

Pro-Blood, Pro-Soil, Pro-Nation, Pro-Christianity | Mere Orthodoxy

People ought to live in close relationship to their family and place of birth. But western nations have made that very difficult for the majority world.

Myles WerntzPoliticsFeatured

What is a Nation? | Mere Orthodoxy

The debates about Christianity and nationalism have missed the central problem because they have not sufficiently reckoned with neo-liberal globalization.

Susannah Black RobertsArtPolitics

On Faustian Christianity: a fragment - Radio Free Thulcandra

The following is a section that I added to my recent Front Porch Republic talk after I gave it. It’s going to appear in the published version but I decided it needed an independent existence. Think of it as a […]

Susannah Black RobertsArtPolitics

On Faustian Christianity: a fragment - Radio Free Thulcandra

The following is a section that I added to my recent Front Porch Republic talk after I gave it. It’s going to appear in the published version but I decided it needed an independent existence. Think of it as a […]

Susannah Black RobertsPolitics

Liberal Sacraments - Radio Free Thulcandra

Recently, Adrian Vermeule published a piece in Church Life Journal in which he pointed out the inherently destabilizing nature of liberalism. As he describes it, the “natural laws” of the life of regimes dictate that the persistence of a regime […]

Susannah Black RobertsPolitics

Liberal Sacraments - Radio Free Thulcandra

Recently, Adrian Vermeule published a piece in Church Life Journal in which he pointed out the inherently destabilizing nature of liberalism. As he describes it, the “natural laws” of the life of regimes dictate that the persistence of a regime […]

Brad LittlejohnPoliticsFeatured

A National Conservative Awakening - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I made my way to the Ritz-Carlton in downtown Washington D.C. for the National Conservatism Conference Sunday evening with some trepidation, unsure what to expect, and feeling wildly out of place among what seemed like a crowd of thinktank wonks, […]

Zack HolbrookPoliticsFeaturedCulture War

The World We Have and the World We Want | Mere Orthodoxy

A properly Christian political witness consists as much in the manner of our action as it does in the content of our ideas.

Jake MeadorPoliticsFeatured

Can Justice Be Saved? Faith, Hope, and Love in a Political Key

Matthew Lee Anderson recently delivered three lectures at Biola University on justice which are now available online for viewing.

Susannah Black RobertsPolitics

On Nick Kristof, Jean Vanier, and Human Resources - Radio Free Thulcandra

Right. So this is a kind of complicated non-hot take spurred by Nicholas Kristof’s excellent and horrible piece in the Times today. Kristof is reporting from Guatemala, where almost half of all children are physically and mentally stunted because of […]