New on Christians Reading Classics: Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner, with Matt Stewart. Why quiet novels can hit harder than flashy ones, and why long obedience in relationships might be the rarest plot of all. www.buzzsprout.com/2612793/epis...

Postliberal Theology, Explained Derek, James, Brad, and Alistair discuss the Yale School in post-liberal theology, voices calling for the church to speak its native language rather than accommodate to culture. www.buzzsprout.com/2612792/1970...

New on Christians Reading Classics: A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller, with Brad Birzer. A desert monastery preserves what survived the nuclear fire, and the relics include something chilling: the knowledge that could destroy the world again. www.buzzsprout.com/2612793/epis...

New episode: "What Is A Man?" Is there any hope of recovering real masculinity? Not the toxic type you hear about or the shallow performative type of manhood you see online. Listen now: www.buzzsprout.com/2612792/epis...

New on Christians Reading Classics: Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson, with Cara Rogers Stevens. Jefferson's Notes still shapes how Americans argue about freedom. What do we do with a "classic" that is brilliant, influential, and morally fraught? www.buzzsprout.com/2612793/epis...

New Mere Fidelity: "Examining Nolan's Odyssey" 🎬 The guys discuss Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey—a post-Christian, pre-pagan adaptation of Homer's epic. What does this film reveal about our cultural moment? www.buzzsprout.com/2612792/epis...

New on Christians Reading Classics: Nolan's Odyssey and Epics, with Jonathan Geltner, Eric Hutchinson, and Rob Wyllie. Homer's epic is stranger and more demanding than a parade of monsters. What is an epic, really? www.buzzsprout.com/2612793/epis...

New episode: "Replay: The Struggle of Prayer." Matt, Derek, and Alastair discuss the struggles and misconceptions surrounding prayer—how it becomes burdensome and what petitions we shouldn't ask for. Listen now: www.buzzsprout.com/2612792/epis...

New on Christians Reading Classics: Augustine, with Joseph Lanier and Travis Montgomery. Why he still trains our instincts for discipleship. www.buzzsprout.com/2612793/epis...

Replay: Conservatism with Dr. Yoram Hazony. What's the alternative to Enlightenment Liberalism? Derek, Alastair, and Matt discuss National Conservatism with the chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation.\n\nhttps://www.buzzsprout.com/2612792/episodes/19567716-replay-conservatism-with-dr-yoram-hazony

New on Christians Reading Classics: The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, with Maria Baer. Why 21st-century American Christians should still read Dostoevsky's unsettling Russian classic. www.buzzsprout.com/2612793/epis...

Measuring Wealth: How can each subsequent generation both be making more money and be considerably less wealthy? Listen to our latest Mere Fidelity episode now. www.buzzsprout.com/2612792/epis...

New on Christians Reading Classics: Jack London: An American Classic, with Elizabeth Stice. Why Christians can still find real value in a writer so openly skeptical of faith. www.buzzsprout.com/2612793/epis...

Replay: The Fractured Republic with Yuval Levin One of conservatism's brightest policy minds, Yuval Levin, joins us to talk about his book The Fractured Republic. Listen: www.buzzsprout.com/2612792/epis...

The Declaration of Independence and the Classics with Brad Birzer: Nadya Williams and Brad Birzer read it closely and ask why it still jolts American life 250 years later. www.buzzsprout.com/2612793/epis...

Divided We Stand: On Denominations How often do you think about denominations? Derek, Brad, and Alistair examine the pros and cons of denominations and pursue authentic catholicity. www.buzzsprout.com/2612792/1945...

Why read outside your tradition? James Wood & Joseph Minich explore how to engage with other Christian perspectives while deepening your own faith. New Mere Fidelity: How to Read Outside Your Tradition

Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis, with Oliver Traldi: what does it cost to love someone well when that love curls inward? Nadya Williams and Oliver Traldi on Lewis's retelling of Cupid and Psyche. www.buzzsprout.com/2612793/epis...

How Theology Nerds Are Made—Derek and Brad interview each other about their foundational theological influences. Which thinkers gave them that spark? New episode of Mere Fidelity: mereorthodoxy.com/mere-fidelity/

New episode: East of Eden with Philip Bunn & Matthew H. Young. Philip Bunn and Matthew H. Young join host Nadya Williams to read Steinbeck as political theorist, moral cartographer, and reluctant humanist. www.buzzsprout.com/2612793/1936...

New episode: Magnifica Humanitas with Brad Littlejohn. We discuss Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI, human dignity, education, just war, and good work. www.buzzsprout.com/2612792/1935...

New on Christians Reading Classics: "James Fenimore Cooper with Dr. Wayne Franklin." Cooper gets filed away as "important" long before most of us actually read him. A leading Cooper scholar on what makes a classic live past its own pages. www.buzzsprout.com/2612793/epis...

New episode: "Online And Outside the Institutions" — exploring the "Elijah syndrome" and what it means to pursue faithfulness within compromised institutions. How do we lead well when the systems themselves are broken? www.buzzsprout.com/2612792/epis...

New Christians Reading Classics: The Journals of Lewis and Clark with Craig Fehrman We read the journals as a true American classic - for voice, humour, and human detail, not just schoolbook summaries. www.buzzsprout.com/2612793/epis...

How 1776 Remade The World with Andrew Wilson 1776 is a master key for the modern world. New Mere Fidelity episode with Andrew Wilson on why this year illuminates the rise of the post-Christian West. www.buzzsprout.com/2612792/epis...

That Hideous Narcissicism by Eddie LaRow mereorthodoxy.com/that-hideous...

Agatha Christie Is Still Worth Reading by Jackson Greer mereorthodoxy.com/agatha-chris...

Community, Character, and the Governance of the Social Commons: Sanctuaries of Order by Benjamin Peterson mereorthodoxy.com/community-ch...

Trojan Horses and Magnifica Humanitas by Nadya Williams mereorthodoxy.com/trojan-horse...

The Case for Copying 'The Imitation of Christ' by Hand by Elizabeth Stice mereorthodoxy.com/the-case-for...