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Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
In September of 2006, Family Research Council Action hosted the first “Values Voter Summit.” In 2007, it had 2500 attendees and launched Mike Huckabee’s campaign into the national spotlight. It was influential enough to momentarily quell talk of the declining […]
Keith E. Buhler
C Michael Patton carefully observes the (increasingly common) trend of people becoming doubtful, disillusioned, and eventually departing from Christ. David Sanford observes, “Any business that is losing 31 million of its customers is going out of business.” Check out his […]
Keith E. BuhlerMeaning and Hermeneutics
I spent the last two months reading and thinking about the Phaedrus. What a fascinating little book of Plato's. I'd like to present four theoretical problems
Matthew Lee AndersonTechnology
For non-tech content providers, at least. Ezra Klein: The success of Politico actually seems like an incredibly discouraging sign for the media. Here you have this forward-thinking, primarily
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
Buried in NT Wright's interesting address on the role of Scripture in the Church to the Lambeth Conference is this curiosity: All this brings us to three particular
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
"Sovereign is he who decides on the exception." So opens Carl Schmitt's Political Theology, a densely illuminating treatise on the nature of political authority. And for
Keith E. BuhlerUncategorized
Technology makes anything possible; it doesn't make everything good. One of the many reasons I like Wall-E, more and more each time I see it (three so
Matthew Lee AndersonLiterature
Adam Gopnik's piece about G.K. Chesterton in the New Yorker continues to stir up dissenting opinions. The latest comes from one of my favorite contemporary conservatives, Ross
Matthew Lee AndersonBooks
In recent years, evangelical Christians have begun joining tradition of seeking social justice that Catholics and others have long excelled at. In doing so, they have often advocated protecting the
Matthew Lee AndersonGender
Camille Paglia has penned an interesting analysis of the history and future of feminism. Feminism is a lot like dispensationalism--a lot of people know they don't like
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
Satire.
Matthew Lee AndersonEvangelicalism
Unfortunately, it’s hard to disagree with his assessment: Obviously the world of religious conservatism also includes lots of people who are invested in actual Christian orthodoxy, as opposed to the Osteen-Shori vision of God as a really powerful life coach. […]