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On Inane American Immigration Practices
Matthew Lee Anderson
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
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
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
The Platonic Background to 'Epistemic Closure'
Matthew Lee AndersonChurch
A Perennial Theme: Christianity Must Change or Die
TexPoetryLiberal Arts
Italian Sonnet
Matthew Lee Anderson
(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
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
Matthew Lee Anderson
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
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 […]