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Matthew Lee AndersonSocial Justice

American Power and Millenial Social Activism

American Power and Millenial Social Activism

Cate MacDonaldFormation

One Thing

One Thing

Jake Meador

A Failure of Storytelling: Kony 2012 and the Social Imagination - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In a private security meeting in 1960 with President Dwight Eisenhower, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles explained that the soon-to-be-independent Congo was a diplomatic quagmire for the United States. The nation possessed enormous mineral wealth and if the United […]

Andrew WalkerPolitical Theology

Of Foils & Scapegoats: Evangelicals & Partisanship

Of Foils & Scapegoats: Evangelicals & Partisanship

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

Conscience and Conservatives: What role should it play in public debate? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We’ve all been whipped into a frenzy over Rush Limbaugh’s idiotic insults of a Georgetown law student, a controversy I have been fastidiously trying to ignore.  Errors often compound faster than interest, and responding to one outlandish statement with apoplexy […]

Matthew Lee AndersonEconomics and Business

Poverty, the Limits of Materialism, and George MacDonald - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Christianity Today recently put together a peculiarly insufficient list of ways to help the poor that was ably and summarily criticized by Peter Greer, whose work with Hope International stands somewhere in the nexus of awesome and jaw-dropping. But they […]

Matthew Lee AndersonEconomics and Business

The (A)Morality of Material Resources

The (A)Morality of Material Resources

Matthew Lee AndersonEconomics and Business

A few thoughts on Wealth Inequality

A few thoughts on Wealth Inequality

Matthew Lee AndersonCollege and University

Upon the Occasion of John Mark Reynolds Moving to Houston Baptist

Upon the Occasion of John Mark Reynolds Moving to Houston Baptist

Matthew Lee AndersonEvangelicalism

The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right

The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

Lent and the Joys of Self-Control

Lent and the Joys of Self-Control

Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsPolitical Theory

The Rachel Held Evans Conversation: Why I am a Conservative

The Rachel Held Evans Conversation: Why I am a Conservative