The Archive
Matthew Lee Anderson
Ben Simpson, bringing the heat against my chapter on death: Is death an enemy, an evidence of a horrendous evil still operative in our world? Has death been defeated, or does it wait for a final defeat? Resurrection awaits us, […]
Gary Hartenburg
In the first post in this series on Aquinas’s account of scandal, we saw that Aquinas defines scandal as “something less rightly said or done that occasions spiritual downfall” and that he distinguishes between active and passive scandal. In this […]
Cate MacDonaldCultureTechnology
The Chaos Curve: Writers' Block and the Ever-Writing Woman
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
On Sexual Apologetics: The Earthen Vessels Symposium (Ch. 7)
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
The Tattoo and the Text: The Earthen Vessels Symposium (Ch. 6)
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
Bridge Building and Homosexuality
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
I wish the story was a joke, but it wasn’t. A few weeks back, not long after Steve Jobs died, a story went around about a company named, of all things, Holy Smokes will take the cremains of your loved […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
Immanentizing our Eschatological State through Tattoos: The Earthen Vessels Symposium (Ch. 6)
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
A Contextualized Sexuality: Jake Meador's Contribution to the EV Symposium
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
Christian Tattoo Academies(?!): Jason Hood on Tattoos and Christians
Andrew WalkerPolitics
By far, the most important (and provocative) book I’ve read this year belongs to perennial controversialist, D.G. Hart. His From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism is proving to be quite the conversation starter in […]
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
Conor Friedersdorf responds to Ross Douthat’s latest column: Douthat concludes his column by writing that “we need intelligent leaders with a sense of their own limits, experienced people whose lives have taught them caution. We still need the best and […]