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Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
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
My friend John Dyer--go buy his book now--reflected on chapter five of Earthen Vessels, and in conclusion highlighted this section: When cleanliness and bodily order become required for
Gary Hartenburg
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
Rod Dreher called Ken a "national treasure," and Rod is exactly right. I have been blessed by a budding friendship with Ken, the founder and host of Mars
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
Joseph Sunde has a good summary of what I'm up to, after which he concludes with this: Although Anderson’s vocabulary sometimes clashes with my own (“consumerism” = commodification/
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
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 […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
Joseph Sunde at the ever-excellent Remnant Culture has the goods: But there is indeed a higher order, an authority that cuts through the perverse consumerism and contorted individualism of
Matthew Lee Anderson
An excerpt from Chesterton, and one of his finer moments: Paganism may be compared to that diffused light that glows in a landscape when the sun is behind a cloud. So when the true centre of worship is for some […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
I have a recap of a recent debate between Jim Wallis and Al Mohler over at The Gospel Coalition this morning: Despite the clarity of the concerns (and the accuracy of each side’s worries), I left wondering whether the language […]
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
This is the chapter I didn't want to write. Even now, reading it, it feels like a detour. There I go, wandering through the fields of the various
Cate MacDonaldSociologySociety
Yesterday I had the misfortune of having to go shopping for costume elements, which included looking for rubber snakes. Side note: Kids these days just don't seem to
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
I am honored and humbled by Nathan Gilmour’s review, which gets going in a hurry and doesn’t slow down: The preface to Matthew Anderson’s book is subtitled, “In Which I Clear my Throat.” How could I but love this book? […]