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Matthew Lee Anderson

Rebecca Black is Cooler than You (and Me)

You may have heard of her music video which now has an astonishing 72 million views on YouTube.  Horribly bad, yes.  But her analysis of it is nothing short of pure awesomeness: (HT: Mashable)

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

The Pentecostal Natural Law Tradition

If it didn't exist before, Dale Coulter is making it happen: I think that evangelicals largely operate within what I will call a Ciceronian-Augustinian trajectory that runs

Kevin WhiteEvangelicalismTheology and PracticeEpistemology

Knowledge Spackle

So, we had a hole in the wall. I don’t mean the tiny urban apartment we shared in the first year of marriage, but a literal gap in the

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

A Theology of Presence in the Twenty First Century

I'm gearing up for my presentation on the theology of presence for the twenty-first century for the upcoming Christian Web Conference out at Biola.  The conference is

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

Assorted Thoughts on Evangelicals and Natural Law

It's humbling and daunting to have played a small part in starting something of a real online conversation (and a serious one at that) about the relationship between

Andrew WalkerBlogging

Who's Afraid of Marx?

Christopher Benson at Bensonian.org, has unveiled his introductory post on the blog tour of Terry Eagleton’s newest book, Why Marx Was Right. Organized by Yale University Press, Christopher’s site will have four different reactions each to a different chapter of […]

Matthew Lee AndersonPhilosophy

Natural Law at Christianity Today

My conclusion: But influence goes both ways, and evangelicals may have something to offer the natural law thinkers as well. Specifically, the evangelical emphasis on the brokenness of our rational

Matthew Lee Anderson

Not Defined by Sexuality: A Brief Reply to John Corvino

John Corvino: It’s true that gay people tend to think about their “gay identity” more than straight people think about their “straight identity.” That’s mainly because, in a hetero-normative world, embracing gay identity requires a lot more effort.” This strikes […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Assorted Thoughts on Love Wins

Got a chance to read through Love Wins this weekend, and I thought I’d post a few reflections on it, bullet point style. If Rob Bell isn’t a universalist, then I think he has only himself to blame for the […]

Andrew Walker

Mark Tooley Interview: Afterword

This week, Mere-O unveiled its interview with Mark Tooley. As with the rest of our content, we hope that you found Tooley’s responses insightful and encouraging. In most settings, interviews often raise more questions than they answer. We hope our […]

Andrew Walker

Mark Tooley Interview Part IV

AW: Who is your all-time favorite political philosopher? Theologian? Do the two ever inform the other? MT: John Locke would seem to be the most important philosopher of Anglo-American limited government.  As a Methodist, of course John Wesley is my […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Was Martin Bashir Unusually Hard on Rob Bell?

The interview: I initially tweeted that this is how “journalism should be done,” a claim which incited some grumbling among those who think that Bashir was unduly harsh on Bell.  Word went around that Bashir attends Tim Keller’s church in […]