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Matthew Lee AndersonBible
Stephen Colbert and Bart Ehrman
Matthew Lee Anderson
I am occasionally asked by folks how to help young evangelicals understand and sympathize with conservative political ideology. Here’s a hint: Don’t steal religious language to make the case for American exceptionalism, as Rich Lowry and Ramesh Ponnuru unfortunately do. […]
Cate MacDonaldUncategorized
On Lent and Hard Times: For Those Who Walk Among Noise
Gary HartenburgPhilosophyTheology and PracticeThomas Says
Thomas Says: What Happens if, Whoops, I Killed You?
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
One of the joys of researching for my book on the body so far has been my encounter with Hans Jonas’ The Phenomenon of Life. As the careful observer can tell from the title, Jonas offers a phenomenology–that is, examines […]
Matthew Lee AndersonChurch
A Word about Church Architecture
Matthew Lee Anderson
There are only four known audio recordings of the great G.K. Chesterton, and only one video (at least that I have found). Thankfully, some of both are on the internet.
Matthew Lee Anderson
“Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile.” So says the Duke of Albany to the treacherous daughter of King Lear, Goneril. The line has a depth that allows it to stand on its own: it jumps off the page and hits […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEducation
There are, of course, two relevant considerations in giving a lecture: the ideas and the form. Each has its own difficulties, and while they are inextricably linked, the form seems to pose the greatest challenge to me. I may be […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
A few weeks ago, we announced that we were going to read Descartes with a small group of Mere-O readers. And we still are. But we’re going to do it a week later than we originally announced: March 6th and […]
TexPolitics
Perhaps the most famous dialogue penned by Plato is his far-reaching Republic. In this work he addresses the popular philosophy of his day—a philosophy that was promulgated by a group of teachers known to us as Sophists. The Sophists were […]
Matthew Lee AndersonPhilosophy
Darwinian Post-Modernism