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Matthew Lee Anderson

On Genocide in Scripture: A Letter to a Friend Leaving the Faith

On Genocide in Scripture: A Letter to a Friend Leaving the Faith

Matthew Lee AndersonLiterature

Hamlet on Embodiment

Hamlet on Embodiment

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Help me Choose a Title (round two!)

Help me Choose a Title (round two!)

Andrew WalkerPolitics

Russell Moore on the Uneasy Evangelical Conscience

Russell Moore on the Uneasy Evangelical Conscience

Matthew Lee Anderson

The Great Theologians

The virtue of Gerald McDermott’s The Great Theologians is that it condenses the central contributions of eleven of history’s most influential Christian thinkers into a readable and accesible format. And McDermott makes this seem easy. The Great Theologians introduces a […]

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

The Decline of Empathy among College Students

The Decline of Empathy among College Students

Matthew Lee Anderson

Reading the Hymns: Blest Be the Tie that Binds

John Fawcett was a Baptist. If you listen to critics of Baptists (and evangelicals), he should have had no idea about the role that community played in the Christian life.  The emphasis on individual salvation, personal piety, and going to […]

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

The Dispatch: The Theology of Technology with John Dyer

The Dispatch: The Theology of Technology with John Dyer

Matthew Lee Anderson

Maintaining Faith: Apologetics within the Christian Community

Over the past few years, we have occasionally engaged in that practice which the church calls “apologetics” here at Mere Orthodoxy. We never did it, I think, out of some sort of anxiety about the reliability of our Christian faith […]

Matthew Lee AndersonAnthropologyembodimentTheology and Practice

Suggest My Book's Title, Win Fame and Glory (in Heaven)

Suggest My Book's Title, Win Fame and Glory (in Heaven)

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Filling the Lost Shape Hole: Friday Night Lights

Filling the Lost Shape Hole: Friday Night Lights

Matthew Lee Anderson

Shakespeare the Chaste Christian

The case for Shakespeare’s Catholicism may be a bit shaky, but Anthony Esolen recently made a compelling case that the Christian virtue of chastity is indispensable for understanding his plays. He writes: There is an abundance of evidence to show that Shakespeare […]