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Matthew Lee AndersonBooks
Since reading Doug Wilson's Wordsmithy in January, I've recommended it to at least five different aspiring writers as one of the most helpful guides to the
Kevin WhitePolitics
I’ve been following Matt’s recent posts on the culture wars with quiet interest.* He’s already pointed to ambiguities in the term “culture wars”. But in light of his latest post on the culture wars and conservatism, I feel inclined to […]
Matthew Lee AndersonCulture War
That's the question my friend Greg Forster put to me after I listed four "moves" that I think conservative folks should make to avoid getting caught
Matthew Lee AndersonCulture War
Earlier this year I raved about an important book that has been (unfortunately) overlooked by most commentators on evangelical political engagement. I invited Professor Shields to answer a few questions based on the work and he graciously accepted. 1) […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
That was the question that Leadership Journal asked me to write about, so write about it I did. At its core, the question of gay marriage is not simply one of tax benefits or social prestige: it is a question […]
Matthew Lee AndersonCulture War
I’ve been going on about “non-culture war” conservatism over the past two weeks, attempting to delineate its characteristic shape over and against some of its rivals. It’s possible that the position is substantively no different than that held by the […]
Cate MacDonaldEducation
A few months ago I got a call that, quite unexpectedly, changed everything for me. It was from John Mark Reynolds, a name familiar to most of you here, founder
Matthew Lee AndersonCulture
Memorial Day Commemoration 2008 (Photo credit: davidyuweb) On Memorial Day, we remember the dead. It is an uncomfortable holiday. There are few moments in our culture that prompt thoughtful, considered
Matthew Lee Andersonmillennial evangelicalsculture warsEvangelicalismjonathan merrittBooks
Jonathan Merritt is a friend, someone who I think very highly of and who has been enormously kind to me. We don't always agree, as I outline in
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitical Theology
David French has posted an "open letter" to post-partisan evangelicals that's bound to get a lot of attention because, well, that's what "
Matthew Lee AndersonEvangelicalism
Andy Crouch cautions against generational analysis: Now America is suffused with generational consciousness, even though “generation” as usually defined is a hopelessly blunt instrument. Whole generations (defined as people sharing
Matthew Lee AndersonBooks
I don’t think anxiety is a peculiarly modern phenomenon, but I suspect that it has become particularly pronounced for many people in recent years. The expanding economy has opened