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Mad Men and Conservative Nostalgia

Mike Cosper: At one level, these emerging shows seem only to take advantage of the Mad Men fad to do what television and entertainment at their worst have never ceased

Matthew Lee Anderson

Publishing the Platform or the Idea?

Chris Ferebee at Q Ideas: Do you want to break into publishing? Say something important, but more importantly, say it well. We don’t need more voices, and we certainly don’t need more celebrities. We need transcendent ideas. We need people […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

The Next Story: A Review

Note:  Eric Eekhoff is a reader of Mere-O.  When he was a member of the Christian blogging community, he established himself as one of the most thoughtful observers of the intersection between theology and technology.  I invited Eric to write […]

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Earthen Vessels: The Endorsements (Pt. 3)

The final round of endorsements: “What does Christianity have to say about the body? Much more than you might think. Matthew Lee Anderson—one of evangelicalism’s brightest young writers—

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Earthen Vessels: The Endorsements (Pt. 2)

Strap in, because the next few weeks might be an onslaught of shameless self-promotion for this book. I hope to write some more personal reflections about the process, what

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Earthen Vessels: The Trailer

Well, here’s a new thing.  Me on video, for the first time in my Mere-O career.  I decided to go all “Rob Bell” on you (if Rob Bell wore Banana Republic, that is). I was uncertain about doing a book […]

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Earthen Vessels: The Endorsements (Pt. 1)

We're a little over two weeks away from the release of my first book. I've got all the nervousness of a first-time author.  When I

Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsPolitical Theology

The Defense of the Garden

Peter Leithart: If Adam was posted as guard, then he was supposed to resist.  Even in an unfallen world, Adam had to resist evil; my argument in Defending Constantine is

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The Evangelical Conservative Stool

Michael Brendan Dougherty, who offered one of the better formulated essays in this volume, has the latest analysis of evangelicals' relationship with conservatism. It's popular to talk

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Rick Santorum's "Constitutional Illiteracy?"

Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post’s conservative beat reporter, has an all-out assault on Rick Santorum’s constitutional views—going so far as to call him “constitutionally illiterate” and

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Standing with Sojourners: When Progressive isn't Progressive Enough

Sojourners, the bastion of evangelical progressivism, has found itself in a maelstrom of criticism. Sojourners rejected an advertisement by Believe Out Loud, an interdenominational outfit dedicated to helping churches and

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The Silence of Technology: Presence Precedes Tools

“The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man.” That’s Paul, who knew a little about the God who made the world.  But the abrogation […]