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Cate MacDonaldFormation

On Forgiving when you can’t Forget (Part II of II)

On Forgiving when you can’t Forget (Part II of II)

Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels

Earthen Vessels: The Early Reviews (Pt. 3) - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The final installment (for now) of some of the things that people have been saying about Earthen Vessels. Cole Huffman, a pastor down in Memphis, did a little creative expansion on the tattoos chapter that is very much worth your […]

Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels

Earthen Vessels: The Early Reviews (Pt. 2) - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

See part one for the qualifiers, which happen to be necessary.  Otherwise, here we do go. First off, I was subject to my first open letter, which happened to be quite a bit more generous than most open letters: Jesus […]

Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels

Earthen Vessels: The Early Reviews (Pt 1) - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We’re about six weeks into Earthen Vessels being available, which means that reviews are starting to trickle in. I am so thankful for everyone who has taken the time to read and comment on the work.  Even though I haven’t […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Chastity Pledges and Risky Sex - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

From the department of ambiguous scientific studies deployed to make political claims comes this latest summation by Wrey Herbert: Bornovalova and her colleagues crunched all the data together, with provocative results. They did in fact replicate the well-known link between […]

Matthew Lee AndersonEvangelicalism

Standing in the Shallows: Consumerism and Christian Music

Standing in the Shallows: Consumerism and Christian Music

Cate MacDonaldFormation

On Forgiving when you can’t Forget (Part I of II) - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Four years and two weeks ago, my little world was torn in half. A secret was revealed that changed my life for good, and caused me to question what I thought I knew about friendship, love, and human nature. This […]

Andrew WalkerUncategorized

Benson's Books

Benson's Books

Matthew Lee AndersonBlogging

Blogging as Letters to our Future - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Alissa Wilkinson: So maybe we can think of blogs—at least the good ones, and maybe even ones like these—as letters, if not to friends, to everyone, to the future: here is who we are, as it unfolded in real time; […]

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Unvarnished Honesty: Luke Timothy Johnson on Homosexuality in the Church

Unvarnished Honesty: Luke Timothy Johnson on Homosexuality in the Church

Cate MacDonaldCulture

Harry Potter and the Age Old Story - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Tonight is the opening night of the final installment of the Harry Potter movies. I have lots of feelings about this. A little over a year ago I was still refusing to read those little children’s books about a boy named Harry […]

Kevin WhiteEvangelicalism

Variety of the Young Reformed - A Reply to D.G. Hart - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

D.G. Hart has given some feedback and pushback to Matt’s and my posts on Voluntarity and the Young Reformed.  Dr. Hart is not one to back away from the rough and tumble of electronic controversy, so I am glad to […]