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Jeremy MannUncategorized

Matt and Lauren's Wedding Sermon

Matt and Lauren's Wedding Sermon

Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsDemographicsCurrent Politics

Sojourners and the Controversy that Will Not Go Away - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Sojourners, the leading organization of the evangelical left, can’t seem to escape the controversy that erupted in March when it rejected an advertisement from Believe out Loud, an organization trying to “significantly increase the number of local churches and denominations […]

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

Politics, Love, and Alisa Harris

Politics, Love, and Alisa Harris

Cate MacDonaldFormation

On False Simplicity

On False Simplicity

Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels

The Good News about Bodies and the Sexualization of Children

The Good News about Bodies and the Sexualization of Children

Cate MacDonaldFilm Reviews/Hollywood

Cowboys and Aliens and Entertainment

Cowboys and Aliens and Entertainment

Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels

The Earthen Vessels Interviews, Round Two - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Trevin Wax is one of the most thoughtful and careful thinkers in the Christian blogging community, so it was an honor to have him endorse Earthen Vessels. But it was also fun (and challenging) to have him toss some fastballs […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Truthfully Representing the Body in Art - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

  My friend Christopher Benson has some thoughtful and provocative meditations on the above painting and others by the recently departed Lucian Freud.  I was not familiar with his work, but Benson has me convinced that I should be: Freud’s […]

Matthew Lee Andersonembodiment

Let's Call it Danish Gymnastics: The Yoga Body - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In the fall of last year, Al Mohler initiated a firestorm by suggesting that “yoga cannot be fully extricated from its spiritual roots in Hinduism and Buddhism.” In making his argument, Mohler was drawing on Stefanie Symen’s The Subtle Body. […]

Matthew Lee AndersonJustice

Marathons, Uganda, and World Vision

Marathons, Uganda, and World Vision

Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels

The Earthen Vessels Interviews, 'Pillar on the Rock' Edition

The Earthen Vessels Interviews, 'Pillar on the Rock' Edition

Matthew Lee AndersonBlogging

Digging Down to the Substance of Things - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Trevin thinks that when it comes down to it, the curiosity of the blogger makes the blog: The best blogs are a combination of the two. The blogger has a curious nature, and this curiosity manifests itself naturally in his […]