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Andrew WalkerDemographicsEvangelicalism

New York Times: Red-State Evangelical Fundamentalism

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

From the Garden to the City: A Review

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

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

Desacralizing Politics and David Brooks

David Brooks: Ward (who is inexplicably being replaced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo) rescued the ground zero project by disenchanting it, by seeing it as it is, not through shrouds of

Matthew Lee AndersonTechnology

The World and Everything in It: Facebook Timeline

That's the name of the radio news show that our friends at World Magazine launched a few months back. Spearheaded by publisher Nick Eicher and his golden voice,

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Together for Adoption: Join me in Phoenix

I'm honored to join Dan Cruver, my pastor, and a whole host of folks at Together for Adoption in Phoenix. As an interested observer, but not direct participant

Matthew Lee AndersonEducation

The Great Books Reader: A Giveaway

The Great Books Reader is the tapas of the great books canon. If you don't know, 'tapas' is a Spanish appetizer that, over time, became popular

Cate MacDonaldUncategorized

The Chaos Curve: Part I

A meditation originally written for The Twenty Pieces Project I've noticed that I tend to self-reform in waves, waves usually started by an awareness of overwhelming chaos

Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels

Pat Robertson, Divorce, and Alzheimers on Issues, Etc.

I had the joy of being invited to talk with the folks at Issues, etc. yesterday about my two columns on Pat Robertson. There were a number of excellent callers

Andrew WalkerPolitics

A "hubbub" on Marriage with Tony Jones & Lisa Miller

There is a “hubbub” afoot on whether clergy should perform weddings on behalf of the state. The “hubbub” is fomented mostly by Tony Jones, who refuses to perform weddings on behalf of the state or have his own marriage recognized by […]

Gary Hartenburg

One Boring Book for College

After the recommendations of books like A Severe Mercy, Resident Aliens, and Lord of the Rings, I’m afraid my recommended reading will sound flat-out boring. It certainly is no respecter of Mr. Anderson’s criteria for a book to be read […]

Matthew Lee AndersonAnthropologyembodiment

What Robertson Means for Marriage

Part two of my thoughts on Robertson and marriage, over at the Washington Post. My basic argument there is that the reaction should be seen as a genuine sign of

Matthew Lee AndersonembodimentAnthropology

Pat Robertson, Bodies, and Divorce

That’s the subject of my short essay over at Relevant Magazine. I sound a note that will doubtlessly be a familiar one to readers of Mere-O and of Earthen Vessels, but the brouhaha affords evangelicals an opportunity to re-examine our […]