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Matthew Lee AndersonChurch
The Christian Web Conference, which is happening this September at Biola University, has started a monthly newsletter for "web pioneers." It's designed to feature articles of
Matthew Lee Anderson
In case you missed it, First Things got a facelift last weekend. A few of my favorite blogs now reside there, including Wesley J. Smith’s Secondhand Smoke and the ineffable James Polous’ cohort of Postmodern Conservatives. Second, the brilliant […]
Matthew Lee AndersonPro-Life
Last Thursday, Maggie Gallagher pronounced that the trouble with social conservatives is that they "have had bad models for political action" and that they "lack institutions that
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
I haven't had many blog-length thoughts of late, but here are a few of the things I've read recently and found interesting: The Ten Most
Matthew Lee AndersonTechnology
Continuing from our previous thoughts: the question of technology and our modern understanding of it is a question of whether the pursuit of scientific reasoning is to be bounded by
Matthew Lee AndersonTechnology
Andrew Feenberg, who specializes in the philosophy of technology, points out that the crucial difference between modern and pre-modern conceptions of technology. He writes: "In the Greek view
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
(Editor’s Note: During the Lenten season, we have invited guest writers to post reflections here at Mere-O. Micah Hoover is an engineer by day, and a blogger by night. He posts Kierkegaardian-style meditations on the Christian life at his blog […]
Tex
Sometimes conservatives are right to feel about silly or ashamed of their values and beliefs: the old Bill Gothard-esque penchant for oversized down jackets and dressing children in matching outfits or the thankfully short-lived movement to ban interracial dating at […]
TexUncategorized
Mention the country of Turkey and most people think of exotic carpets and rugs, crusader castles and the Blue Mosque, Ottoman potentates, and the missionary journeys of the apostle Paul,
Cate MacDonaldUncategorized
Editor's Note: During the Lenten season, we have invited other writers to join us to help remove the pressure to produce content from us regulars. On that note,
TexPolitics
Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues. Niceness presents itself as benevolence, but is often merely an evasion of hard decisions that the realities of human nature require. And
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
The past few weeks, I have had an ongoing conversation with a friend who has experienced traumatic evils and has questions about how to respond to them as a Christian. This is the latest installment in that series: it begins […]