Mere Orthodoxy

Nathan Fielder and and Lance Oppenheim’s recent documentary/performance art film You Can See Everything is a movie that critics and movie fans will be talking about for years to come.

It has become commonplace for conservatives and libertarians to characterize the New Deal as socialist.

I first read The Lord of the Rings because the movie was coming out, and if I wanted to see it with my dad, I had to read the book first.

Among the many harrowing admonitions of the Lord Jesus, one statement makes me weak in the knees each time I read it: “I tell you that on the day of judgment people will have to account for every careless word they speak.

I have lived in and around Austin, Texas, for almost 15 years.

In 2005 David Foster Wallace delivered a commencement speech at Kenyon College called This Is Water.

Early this past June, a friend took me to a gallery opening down in the Bowery of New York City.

Ever the precocious child, a young C.S.

The sycomore is a kind of fig, deriving its spelling from the fruit syconium and the Greek word sykomoraia.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to grow, improve, and expand our horizons.

This last September was supposed to be a joyous occasion.

Growing up as I did in a certain subset of the Church, Psalms was a laborious book of the Bible just a bit more appealing than Leviticus, full of self-immolation and despair over one’s own wickedness and of delight over the thoroughgoing punishment of the…

Sugar maples, sourwoods, poplars, and dogwoods are ablaze across much of the country.

A few years after its 1998 publication, theologian John Webster republished his Scottish Journal of Theology article “Hermeneutics in Modern Theology” as part of an essay collection titled Word and Church: Essays in Christian Dogmatics (T&T Clark, 2001).

In the last few years, public higher education has been shaken up by the emergence of new civics-related centers and schools.

Eric Cyr.

Certainly, Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey this past summer has been a triumph—both critically and financially, far surpassing the $1 billion threshold.

Michael Lucchese.

On the means and ends of this column devoted to notable new and forthcoming books, see the introductory paragraphs of its first edition.

In the concluding paragraph to his June 2025 Mere Orthodoxy piece entitled “Artificial Intelligence, At Your Service,” Aston Fearon wrote, “If we radically outsource this task of dominion we do so to our own destruction.

Last week saw the latest National Conservatism conference organized by Yoram Hazony's Edmund Burke Foundation as well as the Herzl Institute.

This essay is a lightly edited version of a conference presentation delivered at the Baylor Symposium for Faith and Culture on Feb. 27, 2026.

The date for Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address was set for March 4, 1861.

Recent calls for the public execution of the “Cornell 7” accused of raping a fellow student brings to mind one of Aldous Huxley’s most famous quotes: The surest way to work up a crusade in favour of some good cause is to promise people that they will have…

Matthew Kaemingk and Shadi Hamid.

Roughly 1,600 years ago, a man named Alypius confidently proclaimed that witnessing the bloodshed of gladiator combat would not change him.

Not long ago, I was invited to speak at a gathering in New York of pastors from across the Tri-State area.

The intellectual life is in some ways necessarily lonely—in his book on The Intellectual Life: Its Spirits, Conditions, Methods, the French Dominican Friar Antonin Sertillanges insists that the intellectual life requires solitude.

In my early years, I was much more focused on seeing how others experienced Jesus than how I experienced him.

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Full of rebellion, I would die, Or fight, or travel, or deny That thou shouldst have anything to do with me.

My home denomination, the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC), had an interesting summer.

The young child saw those wasted lands; he longed to set things right.

Maya Savir.

A traveller walking through the desert suddenly finds himself encountering a raging beast.

Mischa Willett.

In Jean-Paul Sartre’s novel Nausea a man named Antoine expresses a vivid discontent with his world.

I recently got my copy of Reason editor Stephanie Slade's new book Fusionism, published by Notre Dame Press.

I'm painting buildings in town and I want dramatic light and shadows in my compositions.

Every Sunday across America significant portions of Christians show up to a church gathering only to receive the preaching of God’s word via a disembodied pastor on a screen.

Jordan L.

As both a Christian and a medical doctor, I have spent decades wrestling daily with questions of brokenness and suffering.

Emily Eakin, The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory.

The Three were not made by Sauron, nor did he ever touch them.

The modern world is a mess, or so I’m told the second I open my browser.

Dear readers, We have some big news today.

Andrew Wilson.

Several years ago, a friend of mine took a job as a 2nd-grade teacher at a local, Christian school.

Who can resist a siren song?

The following excerpt from Eco-Anxiety and the Cross: Face Climate Fear with Gospel Hope (September 2026) is published with permission from B&H Academic.