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Cate MacDonaldEvangelicalism
Assuming that there are those of you out there who read our blog but do not read Scriptorium Daily (which might be an inaccurate assumption), I thought I’d refer you to John Mark Reynold’s most recent post. In it he provides a simple […]
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
While the numbers might be off, there is no doubt that the tragedy in Haiti is monumental. Big Photo's stunning and tragic photo essay is all that needs
Matthew Lee AndersonBooks
To be human is to be a lover. That is the starting point for Jamie Smith’s latest work, Desiring the Kingdom, in which he presents an important challenge to
Gary Hartenburg
Fewer topics in Thomas’s moral philosophy have received more attention than his treatment of what has come to be known as double-effect. What is particularly interesting is that Thomas manages to inspire such interest in the space of one paragraph, […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEducation
As someone who has worked briefly in Christian education, I am excited to see more attention being paid to pedagogy and its relationship to anthropology. While Paul Spears and Steven
Matthew Lee AndersonChurch
For as much as I've written about the possibility of a distinct Christian political witness, I fear I have failed to underscore the profound and ultimate sense of
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
My weekend reading has taken me to three very different, but equally worthwhile places. First, a riff on stats from XKCD: A tip of the hat to one of my
Matthew Lee AndersonPro-Life
First, read the NY Times piece on Bart Stupak if you don't know already who he is and why he's (currently) famous. The article highlights two
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
One of the new features I'm really enjoying about the new Christianity Today is their 'Village Green,' a brief symposium on important topics. Space limitations prevent
Jeremy MannembodimentAnthropology
Today as I set-up shop in a line at the Los Angeles DMV I happened to read an incisive essay published in Vogue forty years ago. The article was written by Susan Sontag, and my profit from it proves that […]
Gary Hartenburg
This question really is a no-brainer. It’s wrong to kill innocent people, right? Right. On a question like this, the answer isn’t surprising, so we need to pay attention to the reason why Thomas thinks it’s wrong to kill an […]
Matthew Lee AndersonAnthropologyembodimentTheology and Practice
Wendell Berry's essay "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine" is a gem. I won't recap the whole argument, but along the way he provides