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Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels

Bridge Building and Homosexuality

Bridge Building and Homosexuality

Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels

Bullets, Cremains, and the Concept of the Sacred - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I wish the story was a joke, but it wasn’t. A few weeks back, not long after Steve Jobs died, a story went around about a company named, of all things, Holy Smokes will take the cremains of your loved […]

Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels

Immanentizing our Eschatological State through Tattoos: The Earthen Vessels Symposium (Ch. 6)

Immanentizing our Eschatological State through Tattoos: The Earthen Vessels Symposium (Ch. 6)

Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels

A Contextualized Sexuality: Jake Meador's Contribution to the EV Symposium

A Contextualized Sexuality: Jake Meador's Contribution to the EV Symposium

Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels

Christian Tattoo Academies(?!): Jason Hood on Tattoos and Christians

Christian Tattoo Academies(?!): Jason Hood on Tattoos and Christians

Andrew WalkerPolitics

Are Evangelicals Really Conservative? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

By far, the most important (and provocative) book I’ve read this year belongs to perennial controversialist, D.G. Hart. His From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism is proving to be quite the conversation starter in […]

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

Ideological Politics and the Possibility of Pragmatism - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Conor Friedersdorf responds to Ross Douthat’s latest column: Douthat concludes his column by writing that “we need intelligent leaders with a sense of their own limits, experienced people whose lives have taught them caution. We still need the best and […]

Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels

Infants in the Cry Room: The Earthen Vessels Symposium (Ch. 5)

Infants in the Cry Room: The Earthen Vessels Symposium (Ch. 5)

Gary Hartenburg

Thomas Says: So Scandalous! - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Because you can never have too much Aquinas, I’ve decided to reboot my blogging here with another series on the thought of the Angelic Doctor. The first topic in the series was Thomas’s thoughts on killing. For no particular reason, […]

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Ken Myers' Heart Attack and Recovery

Ken Myers' Heart Attack and Recovery

Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels

The Hollowness of the Self and World: The Earthen Vessels Symposium (Ch. 4)

The Hollowness of the Self and World: The Earthen Vessels Symposium (Ch. 4)

Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels

Welcoming Bodies into the Church: John Dyer on Earthen Vessels - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

John Dyer’s reflections about Chapter Four are up at his blog, and he closes with this: Under the concept of freedom, Matt writes, When cleanliness and bodily order become required for entrance into our communities—as they clearly are in most […]