Noelle Mering

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Noelle Mering is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in the Life and Family Initiative. She is the author of No Contact: How a Seductive Ideology Broke Families and Friendships—and How We Can Repair Them (Penguin Random House, 2026). She is also the best-selling author of Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology and co-author of the Theology of Home book series.

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Noelle Mering is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in the Life and Family Initiative. She is the author of No Contact: How a Seductive Ideology Broke Families and Friendships—and How We Can Repair Them (Penguin Random House, 2026). She is also the best-selling author of Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology and co-author of the Theology of Home book series.

A columnist for the Catholic Herald, she has published in Newsweek, National Review, The Washington Examiner, First Things, The Federalist, The Daily Wire, and National Catholic Register. She has appeared several times on Fox News, EWTN, Relevant Radio, and in various documentaries, including Jesus Thirsts. A frequent speaker on family, culture, and political ideology, she has addressed audiences at the Napa Institute, the SEEK Conference, and the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.

She also writes the Substack Family Revival, a growing platform focused on strengthening family life, faith, culture, and relationships in an age of fragmentation. In addition to her writing and speaking, she works with her husband mentoring younger couples in marriage and family formation and flourishing.

She holds an M.A. in philosophy from Franciscan University of Steubenville, where she received the Bishop John King Mussio Award. Noelle lives in California with her husband and is the mother of six.

Substack: https://noellemering.substack.com/
X: @noellem
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noelle-mering-843a71301/

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Innovative Steps to Reclaim a Human Way of Life for the Next Generation

Noelle Mering

As it becomes more patently obvious that many of our mediating institutions are antagonistic toward our core values, we must become even more vigilant about the formation of our children.

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Newsweek / October 14, 2022

Abortion Reveals Two Types of Men

Noelle Mering

Men who don’t see the vital need for them as men, finding great joy and purpose in fatherhood and fidelity, won’t see much need for themselves at all.

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The Epoch Times / July 19, 2022

The Sea and the Soul

Noelle Mering

“If you don’t understand the wave, you can’t respect it. And if you don’t have respect, it’s only a matter of time before the ocean teaches you to get some.” — Laird Hamilton

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Schools’ New Misgendering Rules Will Create Compliant, Fearful Children Perfect For Totalitarianism

Noelle Mering

Anything short of total allegiance to LGBTQ+ dogmas has long been considered hateful regardless of whether one’s position is animated by malice or not.

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The Federalist / June 23, 2022

A Christian Response to Pride Month

Noelle Mering

Incumbent on the Christian is to love the person and resist the revolution.

Theology of Home / June 8, 2022

Try a Little Tenderness

Noelle Mering

A subversive message for Mother’s Day

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The American Mind / May 10, 2022

Dear Science: What If Kids Need Their Moms?

Noelle Mering

Maybe there’s a better way to educate kids than universal pre-kindergarten, but secular education science is having a hard time discovering it

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Catholic Answers / February 23, 2022

The Two Commandments of Tyranny

Noelle Mering

When the official narrative you are not allowed to question is later admitted to be not only false but unjust and deleterious then we should start approaching the current official narratives with more skepticism.

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The Catholic World Report / February 9, 2022

INTERVIEW: Noelle Mering: “Suppression of dissenting voices is a feature, not a bug…”

Noelle Mering

EPPC Fellow Noelle Mering, author of Awake, Not Woke, talks with the Catholic World Report about the woke movement and Critical Race Theory.

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The Catholic World Report / January 7, 2022

Not My Kids

Noelle Mering

Recovering victims of woke abuse have had enough.

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The American Mind / December 3, 2021

Above Us Only Sky: How Ideology Manipulates Reality & Reverence as the Remedy

Noelle Mering

To see reality as it is, we must start with the hardest reality to face of all—that of sincerely seeing ourselves.

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Religion & Liberty / November 10, 2021

What Proponents of Bodily Autonomy Miss

Noelle Mering

The progressive fear that we might end up legislating morality ignores the reality that we have long been legislating a radical moral framework of autonomy at any cost. We might instead begin with a common principle that the gratification of our desires must end where the commodification of human beings begins.

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National Review Online / September 27, 2021

Noelle Mering is a writer and speaker working at the intersection of ideology, faith, and family. Her mission is to expose the ever-evolving threats to family life while uplifting a richer vision of an integrated human and familial one.

Family Revival aims to navigate an age of disintegration and revitalize family life.