Our lives are full of trouble. That much is clear.
Mere Orthodoxy ↗Lewis's 'The Great Divorce' offers a bracing and disturbing series of portraits all showing different forms of pride and its fruit.
Mere Orthodoxy ↗There are moments when you realize the tradition you love is larger than the version you inherited. Ida B. Wells, a Presbyterian, has recently done that for me, and her…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗Emboldened by her understanding of Christianity, Ida B. Wells walked the gospel into places where it was unwelcome.
Mere Orthodoxy ↗Frequent confession was once normal—monthly, biweekly, or even weekly. But it became rarer among Catholics formed from the 1970s through the 1990s. Today, many Catholics go to confession only... The…
First Things ↗Good news not being thick on the ground these days, I’m delighted to note some very good news from the mother country: On April 24, the Terminally Ill Adults... The…
First Things ↗Open the door. Set my bag down. Turn on light number one. Turn on the library light. Walk upstairs. Walk back down. Open the computer to check emails. Look at…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗The banal work of submitting invoices and managing calendars is easy to forget, but our institutions can't function without people who do that work well.
Mere Orthodoxy ↗James Baird’s new book King of Kings: A Reformed Guide to Christian Governmentis exactly the sort of volume I appreciate. It is cleanly written, succinct, and analytically clear enough to…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗A key problem with Christian nationalist theories is that they presuppose the modernist conception of 'religion' that they ostensibly want to subvert.
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