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Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
Stephanie Smith's wants evangelicals to learn from locavores: It’s true that we need to carefully discern our living patterns and what informs them, as Anderson suggests, from
Matthew Lee AndersonTheology and Practice
Editor's note: Keith Buhler, a founding writer at Mere-O, returns and unpacks the messy business of Harold Camping. In religion, as in sports, the truism holds true:
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
Stephanie Smith continues the Earthen Vessels symposium by focusing on chapter two: In a continuum there might be Gnosticism at one end and hedonism at another, but our current state of “evangelical inattention” means that we are simply not mindful […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
I'm grateful for Jonathan for taking Earthen Vessels in a direction that was lurking in the background, but considerably underdeveloped: science fiction. Looking back through Earthen Vessels, though,
Matthew Lee AndersonJustice
I am an outsider to the evangelical adoption movement, and my time at Together for Adoption did not change that. My wife and I are not considering adopting, nor am
Matthew Lee AndersonJustice
In a world where every aspect of the procreative process is shaped by the omnipotence and omnipresent arm of technology, it can be easy to forget the fundamental miracle that
Matthew Lee AndersonJustice
I'm hanging out this weekend at Together for Adoption, which is ground zero for the evangelical adoption movement. If you're in the Phoenix area or attending
Matthew Lee AndersonEvangelicalism
The constant temptation when gathering to talk about a subdiscipline is that we will lose sight of the first things. That temptation is exacerbated when that subdiscipline is a pragmatically oriented one, an area of the world in which we […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
Matt’s note: this is the first post in the Earthen Vessels Symposium. Jonathan Sprowl was kind enough to provide this intriguing reflection. He is the Assistant Editor of Men of Integrity magazine and Editor of Leading Outreach newsletter. We were created […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
When you write a book, it's easy to allow the pressures of marketing and selling to eclipse the more basic, fundamental reasons that you sent out on the
Andrew WalkerDemographicsEvangelicalism
Karl Giberson and Randall Stephens have penned an excoriating editorial in the New York Times on Red-State evangelical fundamentalism. This is no surprise as Giberson, in particular, and Stephens, authors of The Anointed: Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age, have reigned […]
Matthew Lee AndersonBooks
Eric Eekhoff is a reader of Mere-O who occasionally reviews books for us. His last contribution was the definitive review of Tim Challies's book on technology. I