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Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
Every four years, pundits praise the death and irrelevance of social conservatism only to be surprised when a politician that identifies with the movement becomes nationally relevant, even if he
Matthew Lee AndersonAnthropology
Roger Scruton warns that the neurosciences are creeping into other disciplines: In 1986 Patricia Churchland published Neurophilosophy, arguing that the questions that had been discussed to no effect by philosophers over many centuries would be solved once they were rephrased as […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEthics
[youtube qcYWxVdqR8Y 640x360] Few issues are more sensitive than those surrounding infertility and our attempts to overcome it. Because infertility is so rarely talked about (or talked about badly), it&
Matthew Lee AndersonAnthropology
My friend Andrew Marin of Love is an Orientation fame has turned the book into a DVD curriculum for small groups, which is the publishing industry's stamp of
Matthew Lee AndersonEthics
[youtube UnNphL-fHoM 640x480] Maggie Gallagher and the folks at the National Organization for Marriage are taking on Starbucks for their position on gay marriage, a position that they outline
Matthew Lee AndersonSociety
Not its practical implementation, mind you, but only its place in an intellectual scheme: This worldview held that people are a problem to themselves. The inner world is a battlefield
Matthew Lee AndersonPro-Life
My good friend Tim King of Sojourners took the Rachel Held Evans stage after I did--an admittedly easy act to follow--as a Christian progressive. His answers are precisely
Matthew Lee AndersonCollege and University
Christopher Benson is a writer and educator living in Denver, Colorado. He writes regularly at Bensonian, and submitted the following as a guest post. Thomas Albert Howard, who is the
Matthew Lee AndersonEconomics and Business
Michael Sandel on the moral limits of markets: These examples illustrate a broader point: some of the good things in life are degraded if turned into commodities. So to decide
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitical Theology
What's our doctrine of creation to do with culture, and culture to do with legislation? That's the puzzle I tried to work out over at The
Matthew Lee Anderson
I’ve been keeping one eye on articles on Joseph Kony and the 2012 brouhaha, so I thought I’d pull them all into one post with excerpts. I’ve read more than this, and there are plenty of others out there. But […]
Matthew Lee AndersonSocial Justice
Jake Meador's critique of Invisible Children's video prompted quite a bit of discussion, much of which was rather passionately pursued. Dan Parris wrote the below, and