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Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
My friend Joe has taken up the Overton window of late as a way into explaining how cultures decay. I know we are supposed to be beyond that fear-based
Cate MacDonaldFilm Reviews/Hollywood
Saturday I went to the movies with my family. When I discovered that the plan was to go see Cowboys and Aliens, I was, um, hesitant. All I knew of
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
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
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
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
My friend Bradley Hofbauer runs marathons. Now, runners are a bit of a strange breed to begin with, but marathoners take the crazy to new levels. I say that lovingly,
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
Chris Krycho knows how to ask hard questions, and he simply does not pull punches in his interview at his blog Pillar on the Rock. First, start with Chris'
Matthew Lee AndersonBlogging
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 […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
No epilogue, I pray you; for your play needs no excuse. Never excuse; for when the players are all dead, there needs none to be blamed. William Shakespeare, A Midsummer
Cate MacDonaldUncategorized
A few years ago I was on an extended solitude retreat on an island off the coast of Washington. With no books, television, music or other people to distract me,
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
In Christianity Today: In September 2010, Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, ignited a blogging and media firestorm by arguing that yoga and Christianity are incompatible. “The embrace of yoga,” he wrote, “is a symptom of our postmodern […]
Cate MacDonaldPoetryFormation
Midway this way of life we’re bound upon, I woke to find myself in a dark wood, Where the right way was wholly lost and gone. Canto 1:1-