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Matthew Lee Anderson

Truthfully Representing the Body in Art - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

  My friend Christopher Benson has some thoughtful and provocative meditations on the above painting and others by the recently departed Lucian Freud.  I was not familiar with his work, but Benson has me convinced that I should be: Freud’s […]

Matthew Lee Andersonembodiment

Let's Call it Danish Gymnastics: The Yoga Body - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In the fall of last year, Al Mohler initiated a firestorm by suggesting that “yoga cannot be fully extricated from its spiritual roots in Hinduism and Buddhism.” In making his argument, Mohler was drawing on Stefanie Symen’s The Subtle Body. […]

Matthew Lee AndersonJustice

Marathons, Uganda, and World Vision

Marathons, Uganda, and World Vision

Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels

The Earthen Vessels Interviews, 'Pillar on the Rock' Edition

The Earthen Vessels Interviews, 'Pillar on the Rock' Edition

Matthew Lee AndersonBlogging

Digging Down to the Substance of Things - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Trevin thinks that when it comes down to it, the curiosity of the blogger makes the blog: The best blogs are a combination of the two. The blogger has a curious nature, and this curiosity manifests itself naturally in his […]

Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels

On Sex, Yoga, and the Pope: An Epilogue

On Sex, Yoga, and the Pope: An Epilogue

Cate MacDonaldUncategorized

On Literature

On Literature

Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels

Weekend Reading: Yoga, Sex, and the Pope - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In Christianity Today: In September 2010, Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, ignited a blogging and media firestorm by arguing that yoga and Christianity are incompatible. “The embrace of yoga,” he wrote, “is a symptom of our postmodern […]

Cate MacDonaldPoetryFormation

Waking in the Dark Wood

Waking in the Dark Wood

Matthew Lee Anderson

What I've Been Reading - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Turns out, evangelicals really aren’t disliked as much as we tell ourselves after all: In the 2010 book American Grace, political scientists Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell presented the Faith Matters weather report, which was generally sunny and mild. […]

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Sponsor Mere-O

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Top Posts for June and July

Top Posts for June and July