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Guest WriterChurch
Anglicans turned down women bishops. N.T. Wright and Douglas Wilson both responded to the issue, but their response shows a lack of intellectual empathy.
Cate MacDonaldEducationHouston Baptist University
I love teaching, or so I thought. Turns out, what I have loved is watching people learn. Teaching is another thing altogether, a thing fraught with peril.
Jake MeadorGender
A year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans has stirred up controversy. This review explores the literary devices it uses.
Matthew Lee Anderson
Christianity offers us sex without qualifications, rather than "meaningful sex" that some people attempt to construct.
Matthew Lee AndersonSexuality
“Now here’s a strange thing: a well written, immensely thoughtful exploration of the meaning of marriage that challenges our obsession with it without devaluing it. This is a lovely
Matthew Lee AndersonBible
Biblical nihilism is a genuine possibility. However, Christians interested in preserving the prophetic mode should also preserve "biblical."
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorizedFormation
Thanksgiving is a time for gratitude. But where does gratitude come from? And this Thanksgiving is such gratitude a meaningful possibility?
Matthew Lee AndersonEconomics and Business
What is the relationship between the creative destruction of the marketplace and the stability we have in the home? Do good home lives make better entrepreneurs?
Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsintellectual empathy
Overcoming disagreement is hard but not impossible. Intellectual empathy is a virtue that helps us move from disagreement to understanding.
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
Questioning fits well within the Christian life. But to see that, we have to move from simply questioning to learning how to question well.
Guest WriterHistory
Did the world really start falling apart in the 1960s? History can teach us, but mostly it teaches us that maybe we can't predict the future.
Gary HartenburgPhilosophymoral philosophy
From what I hear, there was a presidential election recently. I’ve also heard that it highlighted (again) some fundamental differences about moral issues that divide the citizenry. Just in