EPPC Welcomes Carrie Gress and Noelle Mering, Launches Theology of Home Project

The Ethics and Public Policy Center is pleased to announce the creation of the Theology of Home Project, led by our new Fellows Carrie Gress and Noelle Mering. EPPC’s Theology of Home Project will focus on equipping biblically orthodox Americans in living out the faith under the challenging new circumstances of twenty-first century America.
 
Gress and Mering are the co-authors of Theology of Home: Finding the Eternal in the Everyday and Theology of Home II: The Spiritual Art of Homemaking. The duo has also developed the online women’s magazine TheologyofHome.com, a site devoted to exploring the far-reaching interests, from lifestyle to faith, of women today.
 
At EPPC, they will look carefully at the important role the home plays in life, culture, and public policy. With the advent of radical feminism, the home has been denigrated at the expense of the family, the basic cell of civilization. And while efforts have been made to restore the culture, little progress will be made without a restoration the home. For fifty years the importance of home has been ignored, diminished, and even attacked or ridiculed. Yet what it signifies speaks to a universal human longing and is a vital piece for us to reclaim.
 
The Theology of Home Project will proactively advance an ordered vision of home and family by expanding into broader methods of engaging women such as developing retreats and workshops, hosting a podcast with advice and analysis, and growing and expanding daily engagement through their online magazine and books. All of these efforts will be aimed at assisting and inspiring women (and men) in the vitally important work of home and family.
 
“Scholars at EPPC advise Church leaders and policy makers, and with the arrival of Carrie and Noelle our scholars will be advising the leaders of the domestic church and the primordial economy. EPPC is committed to defending the family in theory, in policy, and in practice. Carrie and Noelle bring essential insights on how best to do all three. They help ensure that EPPC will remain the preeminent institution for biblically orthodox Americans seeking wisdom on how to navigate the years ahead,” said EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson.
 
“We are so grateful to EPPC and for Ryan Anderson’s vision to see that the home is not unrelated or somehow separate from the broader issues of culture, law, and policy,” said Gress and Mering. “Our work at EPPC will promote the vital vocation of home-maker, someone who makes the home become more than just a familiar hotel. Home is where we are meant to be nurtured, known, and loved for who we are. This requires sustained work. With this kind of solid foundation, children can then engage the world with courage and moral clarity.”
 
Carrie Gress, a mother of five, earned a doctorate in philosophy from The Catholic University of America. She has authored or co-authored eight books, including City of Saints: A Pilgrim’s Guide to John Paul II’s Krakow, with George Weigel, and The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity. Read her EPPC bio here.
 
Noelle Mering, a mother of six, is the author of the forthcoming book, Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology (May 2021), and a regular contributor to secular and Christian media. Read her EPPC bio here.
 
Gress and Mering have both addressed major issues that have weakened the home and the family, specifically the role of radical feminism in Gress’s The Anti-Mary Exposed, while Mering looks carefully at the rupturing elements of today’s critical theory in her book Awake, Not Woke.

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