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Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels

Infants in the Cry Room: The Earthen Vessels Symposium (Ch. 5)

Infants in the Cry Room: The Earthen Vessels Symposium (Ch. 5)

Gary Hartenburg

Thomas Says: So Scandalous! - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Because you can never have too much Aquinas, I’ve decided to reboot my blogging here with another series on the thought of the Angelic Doctor. The first topic in the series was Thomas’s thoughts on killing. For no particular reason, […]

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Ken Myers' Heart Attack and Recovery

Ken Myers' Heart Attack and Recovery

Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels

The Hollowness of the Self and World: The Earthen Vessels Symposium (Ch. 4)

The Hollowness of the Self and World: The Earthen Vessels Symposium (Ch. 4)

Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels

Welcoming Bodies into the Church: John Dyer on Earthen Vessels - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

John Dyer’s reflections about Chapter Four are up at his blog, and he closes with this: Under the concept of freedom, Matt writes, When cleanliness and bodily order become required for entrance into our communities—as they clearly are in most […]

Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels

Created to Create: Joseph Sunde on Earthen Vessels

Created to Create: Joseph Sunde on Earthen Vessels

Matthew Lee Anderson

The End of Paganism - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

An excerpt from Chesterton, and one of his finer moments: Paganism may be compared to that diffused light that glows in a landscape when the sun is behind a cloud. So when the true centre of worship is for some […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Social Justice and the Church - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I have a recap of a recent debate between Jim Wallis and Al Mohler over at The Gospel Coalition this morning: Despite the clarity of the concerns (and the accuracy of each side’s worries), I left wondering whether the language […]

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The Unavoidable Question: The Earthen Vessels Symposium (Ch. 3)

The Unavoidable Question: The Earthen Vessels Symposium (Ch. 3)

Cate MacDonaldSociologySociety

To Laugh at Death

To Laugh at Death

Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels

An Exceptionally Kind Review of Earthen Vessels - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I am honored and humbled by Nathan Gilmour’s review, which gets going in a hurry and doesn’t slow down: The preface to Matthew Anderson’s book is subtitled, “In Which I Clear my Throat.”  How could I but love this book?  […]

Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels

Evangelical Inattention and Tacit Gnosticism, Revisited

Evangelical Inattention and Tacit Gnosticism, Revisited