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Matthew Lee AndersonTrinity

A Decadent Doctrine of Salvation - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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

Top Five: Inklings Fiction - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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

The Choice of Children: The Logic of Gay Marriage and Abortion - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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

The Deep Things of God: An Evangelicalism I Can Live In

Andrew WalkerUncategorized

Let's Let California Be the First (Again)

Let's Let California Be the First (Again)

Matthew Lee Anderson

Ross Douthat's Tepid Defense of Traditional Marriage - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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

Alcorn on Younger Evangelical Inconsistency

Matthew Lee Anderson

Walking Away from Gomorrah With a Song - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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

The Double standard of the Proposition 8 Ruling

Matthew Lee Anderson

The Candy Shop: A Serious Film about a Serious Topic - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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

Defining the Gospel - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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

On Modesty and Self-Identity - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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 […]