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Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

Mere Fidelity: Atonement

What shape should the atonement take as a doctrine?  Is penal substitutionary atonement an appropriate account of the doctrine?  Derek and I are joined by not one, but two guests

Matthew Lee Anderson

Can Christians be gay? An Inquiry

Some conservative evangelicals have been revisiting whether it’s permissible to be gay and a Christian recently. I generally try to steer clear of that discussion, as I find it often reinforces notions of ‘identity’ that are too underdeveloped to be […]

Matthew Lee AndersonEthics

The Expansion of the Good: On the Moral Universe of Prudence

The good and prudence have something to do with each other.

Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

Mere Fidelity: Teens and Sexting

The Mere Fidelity guys discuss The Atlantic's article on sexting by Hanna Rosin.

Guest WriterBooksReviewLilaMarilynne Robinson

Sacred Loneliness and Sacred Comfort: A Review of Marilynne Robinson’s 'Lila'

Jonathan McGregor is a PhD candidate in English and American Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, where he's writing about twentieth-century American literary intellectuals and Christian

Jake MeadorPolitics

On the Libertarian Solution to the Marriage Debate

The Revs Christopher Seitz and Ephraim Radner have become the latest to propose a badly mistaken libertarian solution to the marriage debate.

Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

Mere Fidelity: Theosis and the Warning Passages (Ask Us Anything, vl. 2)

The Mere Fidelity guys discuss the warning passages and the doctrine of theosis.

Guest WriterSexuality

An Accurate Parody: On Andrew Wilson and Matthew Vines

Matthew Vines objected to Andrew Wilson's parody of Christians and homosexuality. But it is an accurate satire of God and the Gay Christian.

Matthew Lee Anderson

Mere Fidelity: The Bible and Dr. Peter Enns

Peter Enns wrote The Bible Tells Me So, and Andrew Wilson reviewed it. So the Mere Fidelity guys discussed said review.

Matthew Lee AndersonEvangelicalism

The Media, Evangelicals, and Me: On Being a Pessimist in a Progressive Age

Evangelicals fight their proxy wars through the media, giving them a progressive hue.

Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

Mere Fidelity: On Multiple Denominations (Ask Us Anything, vl. 1)

How should Christians think about the many denominations? The Mere Fidelity guys discuss.

Matthew Lee AndersonEthicsPro-Lifephysician assisted suicideFormation

A Tale of Two Deaths

The stories of two impending deaths has recently come before our society’s attention, and justly so. Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old who recently transplanted herself from San Francisco