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L. M. SacasasTechnologythe churchborg

Resisting the Rhetoric of Technological Inevitability

The Church's position towards technology should be one of thoughtfulness in the service of faithfulness.

Matthew Lee AndersonTorrey Honors InstituteCollege and University

What's unique about the Torrey Honors Institute?

I am increasingly aware of how rare Torrey is: a community of learners with a shared history and common objects of love is in this world.

Andrew Walker

Marriage & My Common Good - Mere Orthodoxy

Marriage exists because the sexual union between two persons can (and often does) produce children.

Kevin White

Why Church History? Our Future Contemporaries - Mere Orthodoxy

So why study church history? For the Christian, it is to gain an acquaintance with our future contemporaries.

Matthew Lee AndersonSame-sex marriageMarriageOliver O'Donovan

A Word of Caution on the Same-Sex Marriage Debates

We should pay attention to the means by which the same-sex marriage debates go forward, not just their ends.

Chris KrychoAnthropology

Less Noisome Insistence, More Joyful Exuberance on Heaven

I suspect we evangelicals do not so much think wrongly about the new heavens and the new earth as not think of them at all.

Matthew Lee AndersonFriendshipMarriagedisagreement

Friendship and Publicly Disagreeing with the FRC: Updated--FRC Responds to Critics

The Family Research Council gave an award to Ron Baity. We argue that friendship doesn't mean agreement and that they should take it back.

Matthew Lee AndersonWeekend ReadingToy Story 2Tree of Life

Weekend Reading: Notes from Around the Internets

These are a few of the excerpts from what we've been reading lately. Or watching. You know, because it's the weekend. June 16th, 2012.

Matthew Lee AndersonTheologyAnthropologynt wrightheavenEvangelicalismchristianity

Dwight Moody, Heaven, and the Resurrection of the Body

N.T. Wright's works have had many good effects. Inspiring eager readers to police people's use of heaven is not one of them.

Matthew Lee AndersonMarriage

Homosexuality, Sojourners, and Me

The dialogue between conservative evangelicals and the LGBT community is shifting toward the civility of friendship and open communication.

Matthew Lee AndersonMarriage

What the Social Sciences Can (and Can't) Tell us about Gay Unions

What the Social Sciences Can (and Can't) Tell us about Gay Unions

Matthew Lee AndersonBook Reviews

Wordsmithy: A Book on Writing that Deserves a Conference

Wordsmithy: A Book on Writing that Deserves a Conference