The Archive
Matthew Lee Anderson
My piece at Relevant on tattoos (yes, another) came out last week and commenters, well, let’s just say they didn’t quite get it. The general sentiment was something along the lines of “Who cares?,” a response I would rebuke if […]
Matthew Lee AndersonWeekend Reading
Over the past six weeks or so, we've been populating our Facebook page with links to other articles and things of interest on the internet. It's
Matthew Lee AndersonEvangelicalism
David Sessions does yeoman’s work trying to disambiguate “culture wars” as a term: I think most of us loosely think of culture warring as a special class of ressentiment, combat driven by a mentality of besiegement, symbolic struggle, and supposed existential […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEvangelicalism
Jamie Smith, reflecting about the claims that millennial Christians are leaving the church because of her views on politics, evolution, and the rest of the standard litany of grievances: And what exactly are we supposed to do with these claims? […]
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitical Theology
Rachel Held Evans struck a chord with her breathless reminder that when it comes to the culture wars, young evangelicals are just so over that. There's a lot
Matthew Lee Anderson
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Chris Marlink, Social Media Director for the Family Research Council. Remember the media prattle about a conservative “war on women?” It would seem that meme has come to an abrupt end thanks […]
Matthew Lee AndersonCurrent Politics
Editor's note: Ryan is a good friend of mine and a fellow Oliver O'Donovan aficionado. He was kind enough to take on the now infamous "
Matthew Lee AndersonMarriage
Mark Bauerlein has some penetrating thoughts about how individualism has corroded the novel: A good plot needs conflict, an unsettled situation whose outcome we care about. For more than two
Matthew Lee AndersonPhilosophy
Notre Dame's Center for the Philosophy of Religion has just announced a unique opportunity for an academic community: they are offering 10 $3000 prizes to people who publish
Matthew Lee Anderson
“[W]hat the young properly demand is an account of life and the initiation into a community that makes intelligible why their interest in sex should be subordinated to other interests. What they, and we, demand is the lure of an […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEvangelicalism
Jenell Paris has responded to my essay on whether churches should advocate for contraception for single people. Or she linked to it anyway. Her reply gives little indication that she read beyond my first paragraph. I’ve more to say about […]
Kevin WhiteTheology and Practice
I have run in widely varied circles over the past ten or so years. But from the evangelical megachurch to the small missional church plant to the mainline seminary—and