The Archive
Matthew Lee Anderson
On Genocide in Scripture: A Letter to a Friend Leaving the Faith
Matthew Lee AndersonLiterature
Hamlet on Embodiment
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
Help me Choose a Title (round two!)
Andrew WalkerPolitics
Russell Moore on the Uneasy Evangelical Conscience
Matthew Lee Anderson
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
Matthew Lee Anderson
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
Matthew Lee Anderson
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)
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
Filling the Lost Shape Hole: Friday Night Lights
Matthew Lee Anderson
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 […]