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Matthew Lee AndersonChurch

The Emerging Church is Dead(?)

Or at least on life support. Andrew Jones suggested that 2009 represented a decisive year for the movement, and he's been as careful observer of it as any.

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 […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Modernity and Medieval Science

Like Matt Milliner, I’m impressed by David Schaengold’s post over at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen, wherein he relates observation decks, science, and the joy of observation: Being happy merely to see and to understand, as scientists are, is the […]

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

A Biological Basis for Traditional Marriage?

Heather MacDonald's latest piece at National Review explores some of the questions surrounding gay marriage, and the difficulties that arise when parental status and identity is established solely

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Babies: The Most Endearing Film of 2010

I've watched this trailer three times now, and I just can't quit. HT:  Josh Trevino

Jeremy MannFilm Reviews/Hollywood

Quite a guy that Mr. Fox

The Oscar nominations came out Tuesday morning. Pixar’s Up already won the Golden Globe for Best Animated Film. It shouldn’t have. The movie is on par with Pixar’

Matthew Lee Anderson

Marriage in a Media Age

The report that Mark Sanford didn’t want to include a vow of fidelity in their wedding vows is the least surprising, and the saddest, news I have heard in a while. According to his wife, the discredited governor of South […]

TexPolitics

Old and Relevant: Augustine's City of God

No doubt many of our readers are very familiar with all the quotable (and some unquotable) C. S. Lewis, so they should not be surprised to be reminded that the

Andrew WalkerChurchEvangelicalismembodimentAnthropology

Jesus is a Warrior, but not a Cagefighter

Son of God. Prince of Peace. Son of Man. Cagefighter? While the first three masculine titles given to our Lord Jesus are biblical and sufficient enough to express the wonder of Jesus, the last title seems to be ever-more increasingly […]

Andrew WalkerPolitics

Henry was Right, but so was Kuyper

A recent article by Fuller Seminary president Richard Mouw has once again awakened the curious and troublesome topic of Christian political ethics. Without summarizing the entire article, I think it

Matthew Lee AndersonTheology and Practice

Playing the (a)Theological Mystery Card

Every theologian, wanna-be theologian, a-theologian, and otherwise thinking person has one. Discuss a point of theology long enough, and you'll inevitably see it played.  Call it

Andrew WalkerPoliticsPro-LifeEvangelicalismFormation

The Subtle Promotion of Death

To mark the occasion—for some a highly anticipated (and caloric) event, and for some, more forgettable—why not bring Christian reflection to the Super Bowl? The Internet, blogosphere, and