The Archive
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
Life circumstances have put me behind on responding, but haven’t kept Zac Hicks from interacting with my final chapter (life circumstances have also precluded the person who volunteered for chapter 10 from responding to it, so there you have it). […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
Ben Simpson, bringing the heat against my chapter on death: Is death an enemy, an evidence of a horrendous evil still operative in our world? Has death been defeated, or does it wait for a final defeat? Resurrection awaits us, […]
Gary Hartenburg
In the first post in this series on Aquinas’s account of scandal, we saw that Aquinas defines scandal as “something less rightly said or done that occasions spiritual downfall” and that he distinguishes between active and passive scandal. In this […]
Cate MacDonaldCultureTechnology
I'm beginning to realize that the writers' block I struggle with comes, not from a lack of ideas, but from being absolutely tired of my own output.
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
Jake Meador, writing about my take on sexuality, wants me to expand my thoughts on the "apologetic undercurrent" of evangelical teachings about sexuality: Sadly, evangelicals are often unwilling
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
Timothy Dalrymple added some insights into the reasons beneath various types of tattoos. I have to underscore that the whole list is worth reading, but the last one is especially
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
Brian Hedges reflecting on my chapter on homosexuality, a chapter that I'm honestly surprised hasn't gotten more attention: Reading this chapter reminded me of John Stott’
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
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
Jason Hood wants to extend the conversation into two directions: First, if we tat, we should probably do it with excellence. In fact, I’d love to see Christian tattoo
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
A must read: Second, in the discussion of pornography Anderson hints at another underlying problem with our understanding of sexuality: the context in which we discuss it. We live in
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
Jason Hood's work is some of the best out there, in my opinion. And he decided to offer his contribution on tattoos with, well, flair. Up to this
Andrew WalkerPolitics
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 […]