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Matthew Lee AndersonMarriage

Homosexuality, Sojourners, and Me

The dialogue between conservative evangelicals and the LGBT community is shifting toward the civility of friendship and open communication.

Matthew Lee AndersonMarriage

What the Social Sciences Can (and Can't) Tell us about Gay Unions

Mark Regnerus recently published a new study comparing children raised within traditional marriages with those who were not.  The study has generated a bit of discussion as people have attempted

Matthew Lee AndersonBooks

Wordsmithy: A Book on Writing that Deserves a Conference

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

But What’s Conservative?

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

What's Conservative about "Non-Culture War Conservatism"?

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

The Christian Right's Democratic Virtues: An Interview with Jon Shields

  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

Should the church continue to object to gay marriage?

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

Four Moves for a Non-Culture War Conservatism

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

To Go Where Two Men Have Gone Before

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

On Memorial Day, We Remember the Dead

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

A Faith of our Own: A Review of Jonathan Merritt's New Book

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

Post-Partisan Evangelicals and the Culture Wars: An Attempt at Clarification

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 "