The Archive
Brett McCrackenFilm Reviews/HollywoodSiegfried KracauerTom HooperVictor HugoMichael GersonLes Miserablesfilm theory
Tom Hooper's "Les Miserables" is criticized as often as it is lauded. Critic Brett McCracken takes a look at why it's OK that "Les Mis" moves us.
Matthew Lee AndersonUnityEvangelicalismintellectual empathypolemicskeller
Evangelical polemics need help. Screwtape has a warning, though, about what sort of associations evangelicals should seek and how our polemics should go.
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
Epiphany is a season of commemorating a light that shines in the darkness. Epiphany also gives meaning to those who dwell in darkness.
Matthew Lee AndersonLiterature
Les Miserables is about law. And grace. Readers often put law and grace against each other, but Les Miserables keeps them together.
Matthew Lee Anderson
The moral visions of J.R.R. Tolkien and Peter Jackson are very different. The Lord of the Rings books have a more stark moral universe.
Matthew Lee AndersonWeekend Reading
The highlights of what we wrote in 2012.
Brad LittlejohnPoliticsintellectual empathypolemics
Intellectual emapthy is a virtue that we are short on these days. Brad Littlejohn explains what speaking the truth in love means.
Cate MacDonaldFormation
Christmas is meant as a remembrance of the most shockingly concrete experience the world ever had that God was not dead, and he had not forgotten us.
Cate MacDonald
Christianity in the 18th and 19th century was good for women, or at least Mary Shelley thought so.
Guest WriterBooks
I am really pleased to welcome (again) Matthew Tuininga to Mere-O. A Ph.D. candidate at Emory University, Matthew is one of the sharpest young Christian voices working at
Guest Writer
Matthew Tuininga engages Ryan Mcllhenny's Kingdoms Apart.
Matthew Lee Andersonembodiment
Earthen Vessels is going out of print. This is your last chance to get a paper copy.