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Matthew Lee Anderson

How to Reduce Abortions: An Idiosyncratic Suggestion - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

When it comes to how to reduce abortions, evangelicals have tried nearly everything. I provide one surprising solution.

Matthew Lee Anderson

Is Ethical Advocacy Enough? A Dialogue on Digital Rights and Art

A dialogue between Matt Miller and Stephen Carradini on ethical and pragmatic concerns about digital rights, copyright, and free music.

Andrew WalkerPolitics

A Blue Collar, Big Society Conservatism - Mere Orthodoxy

For too long, conservatism has measured the health of the family strictly along economic lines and hardly ever along associational lines.

Stephen CarradiniTechnologySufjan StevensSpotifyMusic industry

Consumption and the Creator’s (lack of) Power

The music-purchasing process before file-sharing was standard capitalism. Cut forward ten years, and the aftereffects have been ugly.

Michael HendrixEconomics and Business

Why Theology Has Something to Say About Economics

Our theology needs to speak to our economics. We turned to psychology to better understand economics; theology provides further assistance.

Matt MillerTechnologycopyright laws

Advocacy and Ending Copyright Infringement

The Internet's already over two decades old, and we still haven't figured out how to cope with its potential for copyright infringement.

Matthew Lee Anderson

A Joy Beyond Words: How Orthodoxy Changed my Life - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy is a profound work that highlights the fundamental goodness of the world and the permanency of joy.

Matthew Lee AndersonWar/International Relations

Pacifism, C.S. Lewis, and Growing up during Wartime

Young evangelicals are drawn toward pacifism in a way C.S. Lewis was not. Is that because we are more familiar with peace than Lewis?

Matthew Lee AndersonOxfordCollege and UniversityKilns

Day One from Oxford: A View from The Kilns

Living at the Kilns while writing at a blog influenced by C.S. Lewis.

Jeremy MannEvangelicalismTheology and Practicepastorsthe church

"He Desires a Noble Task" The Erosion of the Evangelical Pastorate

The evangelical church has a problem. Without more intentional development of bright young Christians, we are going to run out of pastors.

Matthew Lee AndersonreviewsThomas WardBook Reviews

C.S. Lewis and the Church: A Review (Part 2)

Dr. Thomas Ward reviews C.S. Lewis and the Church, a collection of essays on Lewis and his views on the Church.

Matthew Lee Anderson

C.S. Lewis and the Church: A Review - Mere Orthodoxy

Dr. Thomas Ward reviews C.S. Lewis and the Church, a collection of essays on Lewis and his views on the Church.