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Matthew Lee Anderson

Evangelical "Tina Fey" Academics - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“Are you going to be the Tina Fey of your field?” That’s the question that was put to some of evangelicalism’s best and brightest, who gathered at Veritas Riff, the new program from the estimable Veritas Forum, to learn the […]

Matthew Lee AndersonMetaphysics (Ontology)

Metaphysics and Meaning of James Davison Hunter - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Milliner’s characteristically incisive remarks today include this graph from James Matthew Wilson: The meaning of the world that we usually describe as constituting culture, or a culture… does not depend primarily upon our social conventions. Rather, the signs of a […]

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Cremation and Burial as Communal Acts

Cremation and Burial as Communal Acts

Matthew Lee AndersonEducation

One Year Later, a Few People to Thank

One Year Later, a Few People to Thank

Andrew WalkerPoliticsSociology

Discussing a Delicate Issue

Discussing a Delicate Issue

Matthew Lee Anderson

Revisiting Marriage and Capitalism - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Should we put capitalism and traditional views of marriage back on the table? That’s the claim that James Davison Hunter made in the question and answer period.  It was obviously a direct reply to my remarks, even though he didn’t […]

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Expecting to Change the World: A Reply to James Davison Hunter

Expecting to Change the World: A Reply to James Davison Hunter

Christopher BensonLiteratureFormation

Developing an Ecological Orientation Through the Narrative Imagination

Developing an Ecological Orientation Through the Narrative Imagination

Andrew WalkerPolitics

The Truth in Honesty - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

What was perpetrated this week by a particular brand of conservatism was neither conservative nor amenable to any type of Christianity seeking to align itself with the Right. I am, of course, referring to the Breitbartian tactics employed against Shirley […]

Christopher BensonBook Reviews

Christian Ethics in a Technological Age

Christian Ethics in a Technological Age

Matthew MillinerPoliticsPolitical Theology

Expecting to Change the World

Expecting to Change the World

Christopher BensonFormationHermeneutics

Basil the Great: A Theology of Reading - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

When I taught humanities at a Christian secondary school, I spent the first week or so of the fall semester exploring how Christians should read because I anticipated that the pagan literature of the Greeks and Romans would chafe against […]