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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.
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The Goodness of God and Goodness of Scripture
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By Ethan Harrison
Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, marke, learne, and inwardly digest them, that by patienc...
A Conclusion in Search of Evidence
This review will also be featured in the upcoming fall issue of the Mere Orthodoxy journal. To receive the entire journal, sign up to become a member today.
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Why We Worship: The Battlefield of Praise
By Adriel Sanchez
Satan hates it when you sing and pray. I doubt that he’s ever gotten over his not being like the Most High, which means he’s jealous whenever God is truly worshiped. You see, it’s difficult for a being that wants the ador...
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Forming Christians in the Church to participate in the culture for the common good.
Editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy, contributing editor at Plough
I am a writer, bookworm, mother, and gardener. My book is "Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We've Left Behind." To quote C.S. Lewis, "You'll never find a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
I'm Kirsten Sanders- thinker, flitter-about, erstwhile theologian and gatherer of people to think about God.
Words in Marginalia Review of Books, Christianity Today, Mere Orthodoxy, and Church Life Journal. Here, I rumble mostly about Dostoevsky and Russian sophiologists.
Pastor & poet. Walnut Creek PCA
I teach and practice family medicine at a mission hospital in Kenya. I have an actual newsletter (a family/ministry one) you can access at http://eepurl.com/MCign
James R. Wood is Associate Professor of Religion and Theology at Redeemer University, a teaching elder in the PCA, co-host of the Civitas podcast, co-host of the Mere Fidelity podcast, and a regular columnist/book reviewer at WORLD Magazine.
Nadya Williams is Managing Editor at Mere Orthodoxy and Interim Director of the MFA in Creative Writing at Ashland University. She is the author of three books, including Christians Reading Classics (Zondervan Academic, 2025).
Reader, writer, historian
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.
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.
PhD, author, Director of Storytelling at Denver Institute for Faith + Work, cofounder of Willowbrae Institute. Beauty Leads the Way is about the renewing work of a Christian imagination. More at aahales.com and willowbrae.org
Aspiring Luddite, lover of trees. Anti-robots.
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