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On Inane American Immigration Practices

On Inane American Immigration Practices

Matthew Lee Anderson

Too Awesome Not to Share

From the video department here at Mere-O comes this offering, which is predicated on the simple premise of modernity:  we will, because we can. Of course, we never see him come down.  And that is the rub. Second, what is […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Reading the Hymns: Dear Lord and Father of Mankind

Simply put, this might be the most beautiful hymn in the English language. It’s still commonly sung by our friends across the Atlantic.  Too bad they had the misfortune of ranking it their second most favorite hymn behind How Great […]

Matthew Lee AndersonAnthropologyembodimentTheology and Practice

Weekend Edification: What Christianity Teaches about the Body

Weekend Edification: What Christianity Teaches about the Body

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

The Platonic Background to 'Epistemic Closure'

The Platonic Background to 'Epistemic Closure'

Matthew Lee AndersonChurch

A Perennial Theme: Christianity Must Change or Die

A Perennial Theme: Christianity Must Change or Die

TexPoetryLiberal Arts

Italian Sonnet

Italian Sonnet

Matthew Lee Anderson

An Emergence of the Gaps Theory?

(Apologies to the reader for a bit more abstract fare this evening.) Meet Plotinus.   He’s a neo-Platonic philosopher from the 3rd century A.D., and is more well known for his famous pupil–St. Augustine–than his own work. Plotinus’ central contribution […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

The Aesthetics of Sports

In reflecting on the relationship between story and the rules of the game, Brian Phillips writes: What that means is that, if we care about the sport as a story, we have to hope that the people in charge of […]

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

The Lighthearted Seriousness of Confession

The Lighthearted Seriousness of Confession

Matthew Lee Anderson

Reading the Hymns: Let Thy Blood in Mercy Poured

There is no better example of the  interesting and surprising collisions that mark the development of our church hymnody than this week’s hymn. While a communion hymn from the Eastern Orthodox tradition, it found its way into both the Episcopalian […]

Jeremy Mann

Advice to Young Couples

So, obviously no man is an island—he needs a woman. Together they make a big island, which is why everyone honeymoons in Hawaii… My wife and I are in our mid-twenties, which means every spring our mailbox is full of […]