Mere Orthodoxy
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Media for Christian Renewal
We exist in order to say true things about God and His works in a loud, distracted, ideological age.
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We exist in order to say true things about God and His works in a loud, distracted, ideological age.
mereorthodoxy.com
The Promise of Christian Small Magazines
Post-war intellectual ferment in Paris reveals how small magazines can create spaces where ideas spark with energy and new worlds open up.
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Post-war intellectual ferment in Paris reveals how small magazines can create spaces where ideas spark with energy and new worlds open up.
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The Promise of a Christian Small Magazine
A small magazine occupies a unique role in the task of creating an ecosystem of mutually reenforcing Christian institutions devoted to the good of society.
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February 6, 2026 at 7:46 PM
The Promise of Christian Small Magazines
Post-war intellectual ferment in Paris reveals how small magazines can create spaces where ideas spark with energy and new worlds open up.
mereorthodoxy.com/the-promise-...
Post-war intellectual ferment in Paris reveals how small magazines can create spaces where ideas spark with energy and new worlds open up.
mereorthodoxy.com/the-promise-...
Creed, Prayer, and Commandments as Formation
These ancient texts provide essential scaffolding for spiritual formation by defining what kind of creatures we are and how we flourish.
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These ancient texts provide essential scaffolding for spiritual formation by defining what kind of creatures we are and how we flourish.
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How the Creed, Lord's Prayer, and Ten Commandments Ground Spiritual Formation and Soul Care
The Apostle's Creed, Lord's Prayer, and Decalogue can help us to understand both what we are and what we might become.
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February 6, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Creed, Prayer, and Commandments as Formation
These ancient texts provide essential scaffolding for spiritual formation by defining what kind of creatures we are and how we flourish.
mereorthodoxy.com/how-the-cree...
These ancient texts provide essential scaffolding for spiritual formation by defining what kind of creatures we are and how we flourish.
mereorthodoxy.com/how-the-cree...
Who Is Rich and Who Is Poor?
A missionary doctor discovers that most Americans are global tycoons, challenging how we understand wealth's spiritual dangers and generosity obligations.
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A missionary doctor discovers that most Americans are global tycoons, challenging how we understand wealth's spiritual dangers and generosity obligations.
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Who Is Rich and Who Is Poor?
Having an accurate idea of who is rich and who is poor, relatively speaking, can help us better understand the Christian call to generosity.
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February 5, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Who Is Rich and Who Is Poor?
A missionary doctor discovers that most Americans are global tycoons, challenging how we understand wealth's spiritual dangers and generosity obligations.
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A missionary doctor discovers that most Americans are global tycoons, challenging how we understand wealth's spiritual dangers and generosity obligations.
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You Can't Clear Cut Political Society
Evangelical attempts to eliminate secularism ignore the complex realities of political society and the limits of cultural transformation.
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Evangelical attempts to eliminate secularism ignore the complex realities of political society and the limits of cultural transformation.
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You can't clear cut political society.
If our political society is like a forest, then attempts to clear cut it will do to us what they do to forests: leave them poorer and sicker.
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February 5, 2026 at 5:45 PM
You Can't Clear Cut Political Society
Evangelical attempts to eliminate secularism ignore the complex realities of political society and the limits of cultural transformation.
mereorthodoxy.com/you-cant-cle...
Evangelical attempts to eliminate secularism ignore the complex realities of political society and the limits of cultural transformation.
mereorthodoxy.com/you-cant-cle...
Isolation and Community in Rural America
Two novels reveal how rural isolation breeds tragedy and comedy, offering insights into America's loneliness epidemic and potential remedies.
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Two novels reveal how rural isolation breeds tragedy and comedy, offering insights into America's loneliness epidemic and potential remedies.
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Isolation and Community in Rural America
Two recent novels offer dark accounts of loneliness, but also suggest what an escape from loneliness might look like.
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February 5, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Isolation and Community in Rural America
Two novels reveal how rural isolation breeds tragedy and comedy, offering insights into America's loneliness epidemic and potential remedies.
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Two novels reveal how rural isolation breeds tragedy and comedy, offering insights into America's loneliness epidemic and potential remedies.
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Communicating Truth, Goodness, and Beauty
A framework for how Christians can effectively communicate transcendent values in a culture increasingly hostile to traditional claims.
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A framework for how Christians can effectively communicate transcendent values in a culture increasingly hostile to traditional claims.
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On Communicating Truth, Goodness, and Beauty
Learning to compelling convey truth and beauty is not an ability we simply acquire in a rote way; it is a capacity that is cultivated over a lifetime.
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February 4, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Communicating Truth, Goodness, and Beauty
A framework for how Christians can effectively communicate transcendent values in a culture increasingly hostile to traditional claims.
mereorthodoxy.com/on-communica...
A framework for how Christians can effectively communicate transcendent values in a culture increasingly hostile to traditional claims.
mereorthodoxy.com/on-communica...
Suffering as Spiritual Formation
One of the most powerful forces shaping Christian character isn't an intentional discipline but an unavoidable reality we rarely discuss.
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One of the most powerful forces shaping Christian character isn't an intentional discipline but an unavoidable reality we rarely discuss.
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Suffering as Spiritual Formation
When spiritual formation comes up we think of scripture reading or prayer or a rule of life. But the suffering we don't choose can be enormously formative.
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February 4, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Suffering as Spiritual Formation
One of the most powerful forces shaping Christian character isn't an intentional discipline but an unavoidable reality we rarely discuss.
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One of the most powerful forces shaping Christian character isn't an intentional discipline but an unavoidable reality we rarely discuss.
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When We Become the Product
Digital technology increasingly teaches us to see human life as measurable market value rather than inherent dignity.
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Digital technology increasingly teaches us to see human life as measurable market value rather than inherent dignity.
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When We Become the Product: Heidegger, Han, and Digital Enframing
Digital technology orders the world and ourselves as resources ready for market, a process Heidegger calls enframing and Han traces into the digital age.
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February 3, 2026 at 7:42 PM
When We Become the Product
Digital technology increasingly teaches us to see human life as measurable market value rather than inherent dignity.
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Digital technology increasingly teaches us to see human life as measurable market value rather than inherent dignity.
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Framework for Faithful Ministry Leadership
Values underlie everything we think, say, and do in ministry leadership, requiring careful attention to foundational principles.
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Values underlie everything we think, say, and do in ministry leadership, requiring careful attention to foundational principles.
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A Framework for Faithful Ministry Leadership
Retired US Navy Vice Admiral John Scott Redd developed a framework for defining virtuous leadership which can apply in a variety of settings.
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February 3, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Framework for Faithful Ministry Leadership
Values underlie everything we think, say, and do in ministry leadership, requiring careful attention to foundational principles.
mereorthodoxy.com/a-framework-...
Values underlie everything we think, say, and do in ministry leadership, requiring careful attention to foundational principles.
mereorthodoxy.com/a-framework-...
Tramping Out of Dante's Hell
A literary journey through Dante's Inferno reveals timeless insights about sin, redemption, and the path toward divine love.
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A literary journey through Dante's Inferno reveals timeless insights about sin, redemption, and the path toward divine love.
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Tramping Out of Dante's Hell
Instead of focusing on what is wrong and distasteful about our world, focus on what you want your life to be about and move doggedly in that direction.
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February 2, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Tramping Out of Dante's Hell
A literary journey through Dante's Inferno reveals timeless insights about sin, redemption, and the path toward divine love.
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A literary journey through Dante's Inferno reveals timeless insights about sin, redemption, and the path toward divine love.
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s Christian Achievement
King's insistence that moral fervor demands belief in God challenges both his agnostic allies and contemporary justice movements.
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King's insistence that moral fervor demands belief in God challenges both his agnostic allies and contemporary justice movements.
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The Christian Achievement of Martin Luther King Jr.
King remained tethered to a Christian understanding of non-violence and human dignity. This produced a distinctively Christian political strategy.
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February 2, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Christian Achievement
King's insistence that moral fervor demands belief in God challenges both his agnostic allies and contemporary justice movements.
mereorthodoxy.com/the-christia...
King's insistence that moral fervor demands belief in God challenges both his agnostic allies and contemporary justice movements.
mereorthodoxy.com/the-christia...
