Last week, I posted a few reflections on how Christians should respond when they experience horrendous evils. My interlocutor replied with this additional concern: “I have to admit…I gave a bitter sigh when I read this, because not a week ago I quoted [Psalm 37:13] to a friend of mine while exclaiming that I wish [...]
Archive for February, 2009
February 26, 2009
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The Justice of God in the Here and Now
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Theology (Christian Life)
February 25, 2009
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A Meditation on Ash Wednesday
By Matthew Lee Anderson in UncategorizedToday we celebrate the beginning of the Lenten season. Ash Wednesday, the most penitential day of the year, ushers in the “bright sadness” (to use Alexander Schmemann’s phrase). Sad because the next six weeks we shall be confronted by our sin–bright because the next six weeks we shall be reminded of the death and resurrection [...]
February 17, 2009
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Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God: A Letter to a Friend
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Theology (Christian Life)From time to time, I will get an email with questions about how to live the Christian life. While I am not a pastor, former students or sometime readers of this blog will occasionally seek my opinions. One such individual recently emailed me, expressing her struggles to believe in the goodness of God. Below is [...]
February 16, 2009
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The Conversation Continues: Responding to Hartenburg’s Criticisms of the New Evangelical Scandal
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Theology (Church)I am grateful to Gary Hartenburg for his detailed and thorough response to my article. My hope in writing the article was not to offer a final verdict, but another perspective in what is already a long conversation about the nature of evangelicalism, both past and future. In this, my aim was more modest than [...]
February 10, 2009
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The Critics Respond: Hartenburg on “The New Evangelical Scandal”
By Matthew Lee Anderson in UncategorizedGary Hartenburg, a good friend and a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy, penned the following response to my recent piece on the young evangelicalism. With his permission, I’m posting it here. I’ll write a response sometime this weekend (I hope). Commenting on Anderson’s article is difficult because it is easy to slip from commentary on and [...]
February 1, 2009
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Nine Things
By Keith E. D. Buhler in AmericaAll people by nature desire knowledge. The vehicles by which people endeavor to know things are basically two: the senses or the mind. The objects which people endeavor to know are of only a few kinds. Historically, there has been a ‘constant battle’* between those who endeavor to know by the senses (and therefore know [...]