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Cate MacDonaldFormation

On Lent and Hard Times: Seasonal Creatures

On Lent and Hard Times: Seasonal Creatures

Matthew Lee AndersonLiberal ArtsHistory/Church History

Brief Reflections on Roman History

Brief Reflections on Roman History

Andrew WalkerEducation

Avant Garde Education

Avant Garde Education

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

Peter Kreeft on the Theology of the Body

Peter Kreeft on the Theology of the Body

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

In Praise of Sidewalks

In Praise of Sidewalks

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Mere-O Miscellanea: Abbreviated Thoughts from Around the Web

Mere-O Miscellanea: Abbreviated Thoughts from Around the Web

TexPolitics

Summer in the City?

I’m from a small town.  My life began in Southern California suburbs and as I grew older, my family moved further and further from city life every chance we had, until we finally settled in the antithesis of a booming […]

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

Romney Reinventing Himself....Again

2012 is a long ways away, but that hasn’t stopped speculators from gaming the Presidential race on the Republican side, where there is no definitive frontrunner.  Partly what makes the Republican party so intriguing these days is the lack of […]

Cate MacDonaldembodimentAnthropology

On Lent and Hard Times: An Introduction

February 17th is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the season of Lent. Around this time last year I wrote a reflection on fasting as it is portrayed in Isaiah, wondering at the nature of a true fast. I think it’s sort […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

The New Dating Game

Charlotte Allen has  a long piece in The Weekly Standard that highlights the contemporary dating game and the pathologies–there’s really no other word–that drive it.   From her conclusion: The whole point of the sexual and feminist revolutions was to […]

Matthew Lee AndersonChurch

The Emerging Church is Dead(?)

The Emerging Church is Dead(?)

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

The Witness of Being Weird

One of the main themes of Evangel’s early days was evangelicals’ complex relationship to culture. I recently came across Evangel contributor Dr. Russell Moore’s astute analysis on the question from 2007 in the pages of Touchstone, the other ecumenical magazine of […]