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TexEconomics and Business

Antiprenneurs: How Free-Market Economies Can Save the World (or maybe just the rainforest)

Capitalism is not a system invented by greedy people to get more money. It is not the primary cause of the “economic crisis” looming large in the minds and T.V. sets of most Americans today. It is not the reason […]

TexPolitics

Palin-mania, Texas-style

The thing about Palin-mania is that it's just so much fun. Sure, it might be a bit silly and less than "mature" (said with a

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

To Serve, and Not to Lord Over Us: Calvin on the Tradition of the Church

From a sociological standpoint, it is a stretch to say that most evangelicals have any relationship to ecclesiastical traditions that extend beyond the past fifty years at all.  Among those

TexEconomics and Business

Value-adds and American Ingenuity

“Everyone has to focus on what exactly is their value-add…We are in the middle of a big technological change, and when you live in a society that is at the cutting edge of that change [like America], it is hard […]

TexUncategorized

...whew, what a ride it has all been.

Dear readers, friends, and enemies: My sincere apologies for taking such a vacation from contributing to the output of Mere Orthodoxy...it seems that the military and those stars that

Tex

In Memory

America, and the world, experienced a watershed event seven years ago.  My life certainly changed as my military committment “to support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic” suddenly took on […]

TexChurch

Israel and the Messianic Jews

St. Paul is still relevant today, and not just in the general sense. Paul is relevant today in what has become something almost like historical déjà vu. When Paul began traveling across Palestine and then Asia Minor and Europe, the […]

Keith E. BuhlerUncategorized

Google Chrome: They've Done it A-Gain

Google doesn't seem to make mistakes.  In response to the current arms-race between Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mac Safari*, Opera, and Mozilla Firefox, they've quietly designed

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Invading the Amazon

If you search by "author" for "Matthew Lee Anderson" on Amazon.com, two entries come up: One of them is a book on Eighteenth Century Europe

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

Precisely Right: Douthat on Sarah Palin

I’ve been wondering what to say about this whole Sarah Palin hubub.  Ross Douthat’s (humorous) take suffices: Judging by my email, a number of readers seem to be under the impression that what we’ve been witnessing in the media and […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

The Art of Online Conversation

I had the pleasure of discussing the way internet technologies are shaping Christendom with the prolific John Mark Reynolds yesterday. Marcus Goodyear and Katherine Britton were also on the call. The podcast is up at ScriptoriumDaily. Once again, it was […]

Keith E. BuhlerUncategorized

Why Didn't Jesus Start a Megachurch?

(No small bit of reading, but) check out Scott Thumma's dissertation research on Megachurches. A nice factoid: "Megachurches are a new phenomenon. This is not to say