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In Memory: Wendell Berry
Well, you’ve gone along ahead—
We shouldn’t be surprised (but we are).
You’ve always walked ahead of us,
Looking back with kindness, calling
Our company to the good and right way.
Your vision of the world has oriented us
Helped u...
Stewarding Land and Language
Photo by Juho Luomala on Unsplash
There was a time when Wendell Berry was a passionate and even amusing critic of Christianity. This is seen perhaps most explicitly in one of his earliest published essays, “The Long-Legged House.”
In the...
The Return of the Common Good
Stefan Borg, The Return of the Common Good: The Postliberal Project Left and Right. Routledge, 2026. $200.00, 162 pp.
As someone who has been a self-identified postliberal since around 2010, I have been waiting for a book like this for yea...
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Forming Christians in the Church to participate in the culture for the common good.
I'm Kirsten Sanders- thinker, flitter-about, erstwhile theologian and gatherer of people to think about God.
I am a pastor to college students. I write. I share a theology and culture podcast (Mere Fidelity). I also have a book about God coming out (The Fire of Glory).
I work every day to make a better world for my children, my communities, and my clients. Co-Founder of Make it Matter Media Inc. Expect Simpsons references.
Words in Marginalia Review of Books, Christianity Today, Mere Orthodoxy, and Church Life Journal. Here, I rumble mostly about Dostoevsky and Russian sophiologists.
Pilgrim seeking the beatific vision. Writer of essays, novels, book reviews. Contributor at Mere Orthodoxy, Mockingbird, 1517, and elsewhere. Researching the English Reformation. Servant of the Secret Fire. \ud83d\udd25
I write on literature, religion, culture, and motherhood: https://share.google/bf7hSypZhlYt2nuY9 You can read my work in Public Discourse, The Critic, The Spectator, Seen & Unseen, Fairer Disputations, and more.
A(n almost fully trained) theologian who loves science and good stories - Fuller Grad, Aberdeen Student - published in Christianity Today, Mere Orthodoxy, Inkwell, Christ & Pop Culture, Front Porch Republic, Peer, and Fare Forward.
I love Jesus, books, movies, and writing about those things. Elder/pastor at Christ the King Church in Kenosha, WI. Gladly published in Mere Orthodoxy.
Daniel K. Williams teaches American history at Ashland University and is the author of several books on American religion and politics, including The Politics of the Cross: A Christian Alternative to Partisanship.
Pastor & poet. Walnut Creek PCA
Anglican Pastor and Director of Heritage Mission. Author: From Word to Worship (Baker Books), Virtuous Persuasion, and Four Mountains. I help start worship services in nursing homes.
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