The Archive
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
Matthew Lee AndersonFilm Reviews/Hollywood
[vimeo 32338361 600 338] What Ben Mezrich did for card counters in Bringing down the House, Bryan Storkel aims to do for The Church Team, a now defunct group of
Matthew Lee AndersonSocial Justice
My friend Dan Parris makes an astute point about the nature of activism: If you watch [Invisible Children's] past films (or spend significant time in that part of
Cate MacDonaldFormation
Sitting in class with Dr. Coe was always different. Different from other teachers, different from the same class last week, different from anything we’d done before. And yet there’
Jake Meador
In a private security meeting in 1960 with President Dwight Eisenhower, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles explained that the soon-to-be-independent Congo was a diplomatic quagmire for the United States. The nation possessed enormous mineral wealth and if the United […]
Andrew WalkerPolitical Theology
There is no more of a popular and easy target for young evangelicals to skewer than a church wedded to political conservatism. Simply recounting the charts, the statistics, and the
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
We’ve all been whipped into a frenzy over Rush Limbaugh’s idiotic insults of a Georgetown law student, a controversy I have been fastidiously trying to ignore. Errors often compound faster than interest, and responding to one outlandish statement with apoplexy […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEconomics and Business
Christianity Today recently put together a peculiarly insufficient list of ways to help the poor that was ably and summarily criticized by Peter Greer, whose work with Hope International stands somewhere in the nexus of awesome and jaw-dropping. But they […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEconomics and Business
Following up on yesterday's musings about the proper distribution of material resources, I thought I'd walk through a bit more O'Donovan for us all.
Matthew Lee AndersonEconomics and Business
What sort of problem is wealth inequality, if it is a problem at all? That's the question that's been ably posed to me by a commenter,
Matthew Lee AndersonCollege and University
My friend John Mark Reynolds just announced this evening that he is leaving his position as Director to become the new provost at Houston Baptist University.* In the common parlance,