The Archive
Matthew Lee AndersonTrinity
One of my favorite moments in The Deep Things of God is Sanders’ explication of what happens when a culture becomes decadent. He writes: “Inhabitants of a decadent culture feel themselves to be living among the scraps and fragments of […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
It’s a little-known fact among my close friends that I am a chronic “lister.” Want to know what are the greatest bands ever? I’m happy to put tell you those, and defend my choices–even if I’ve never heard one of […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
Ross has been doing a yeoman’s work making me almost regret my critique of his essay on gay marriage by offering a patient, sophisticated case for preserving the “ideal” of heterosexual marriage. Specifically, I was pleased to see him affirm […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEvangelicalism
The Deep Things of God: An Evangelicalism I Can Live In
Andrew WalkerUncategorized
Let's Let California Be the First (Again)
Matthew Lee Anderson
I like Ross Douthat. A lot. I started reading him when he was at The Atlantic, and was instantly hooked. While I have no pretensions that I’ve gotten close, I have consciously tried to model my level of discourse after his. He […]
Andrew WalkerPro-Life
Alcorn on Younger Evangelical Inconsistency
Matthew Lee Anderson
I’ve got some thoughts over at Christianity Today on the proper response for evangelicals to the recent ruling on Proposition 8: Practically, I think we have relied too heavily on the will of the majority as our foundation for our […]
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
The Double standard of the Proposition 8 Ruling
Matthew Lee Anderson
If there is an issue that the evangelical left and right speak with a single voice on, sex trafficking is it. The trade has received an increasing amount of attention the past two years. While it started before Amazing Grace, […]
Matthew Lee AndersonBible
Talking about the Gospel is all the rage these days. Everyone wants to know precisely how big it should be–does it include working for justice (which is invariably social justice), or not? With that in mind, I decided to put […]
Cate MacDonald
There is an interesting parallel, obvious open reflection, between modesty and sense of self. It occurred to me on one particularly lazy Saturday as I sat on a friend’s couch and watched a “real” housewife “find” herself relearning the art […]