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Matthew Lee Anderson

Theology amidst the Disciplines

Milliner has typically astute thoughts on the relationship–it’s a stormy one, where it exists at all–between beauty and the theology of Karl Barth.  In the comments (which are all worth reading), he writes: But I found that Barthian concerns did […]

Matthew Lee AndersonEducation

The April Recap

The April Recap

Matthew Lee Anderson

A Sword Between the Sexes

Like us here at Mere-O, Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen likes C.S. Lewis. As an undergrad, she was drawn to his vision of a Christianity, which fuses intellectual robustness with piety and a lively imagination.  She found in him a subtle […]

Matthew Lee AndersonMetaphysics (Ontology)

The Expansiveness of Time

Tomorrow, my experience of time will dramatically change. Over the past six months, I have been working for an international corporation in what amounted to a digital stockroom.  It was the sort of job that would turn the most hardened […]

Cate MacDonaldDevotionalFormation

Because of My Mother

As I type this I am watching a smug and self-important young woman on a Sunday morning show give a monologue on The Pill. On this Mother’s Day, she is telling the nation how great it is that women no […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Reading the Hymns: Jesus Paid it All

If there’s a hymn that encapsulates the impulse and theology behind the evangelical revivals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, “Jesus Paid it All” is it. But the “Jesus Paid it All” that was brought to prominence by […]

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

A Weekend of Edification: Notes from Around the Web

A Weekend of Edification: Notes from Around the Web

Andrew WalkerPolitics

Constitutional Morass

Constitutional Morass

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

God Gives the Superfluities

God Gives the Superfluities

Matthew Lee Anderson

A Promissory Note

These are the books that I have reviews of forthcoming.  Now you know. Are there any books that you’d like me to add to the list?

Matthew Lee AndersonBible

McLaren's 'New Christianity' and its Greco-Roman Narrative

I haven’t yet read McLaren’s latest, mostly because of financial restrictions.  But I’ve been keeping one eye on the critiques, if only to see where the perceived weaknesses are if I ever make it around to it. And  Fuller New […]

Andrew WalkerPolitics

Can Atheism be Legal?

Can Atheism be Legal?