The Archive
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
Epiphany is a season of commemorating a light that shines in the darkness. Epiphany also gives meaning to those who dwell in darkness.
Matthew Lee AndersonLiterature
Les Miserables is about law. And grace. Readers often put law and grace against each other, but Les Miserables keeps them together.
Matthew Lee Anderson
The moral visions of J.R.R. Tolkien and Peter Jackson are very different. The Lord of the Rings books have a more stark moral universe.
Matthew Lee AndersonWeekend Reading
The highlights of what we wrote in 2012.
Brad LittlejohnPoliticsintellectual empathypolemics
Intellectual emapthy is a virtue that we are short on these days. Brad Littlejohn explains what speaking the truth in love means.
Cate MacDonaldFormation
Christmas is meant as a remembrance of the most shockingly concrete experience the world ever had that God was not dead, and he had not forgotten us.
Cate MacDonald
Christianity in the 18th and 19th century was good for women, or at least Mary Shelley thought so.
Guest WriterBook Reviews
Ryan McIlhenny’s Kingdoms Apart (Part 2): Redeemed Culture as Christian Witness
Guest Writer
Matthew Tuininga engages Ryan Mcllhenny's Kingdoms Apart.
Matthew Lee Andersonembodiment
Earthen Vessels is going out of print. This is your last chance to get a paper copy.
Guest WriterChurch
Anglicans turned down women bishops. N.T. Wright and Douglas Wilson both responded to the issue, but their response shows a lack of intellectual empathy.
Cate MacDonaldEducationHouston Baptist University
I love teaching, or so I thought. Turns out, what I have loved is watching people learn. Teaching is another thing altogether, a thing fraught with peril.