The Archive
Matthew Lee Anderson
In case you missed it, PZ Myers has created quite a stir by taking a consecrated wafer from a Catholic Church with the express intent of desecrating it. He has a point, naturally: By the way, I didn’t want to […]
Matthew Lee AndersonLiterature
Occasionally I come across a book review so scathing that it makes me laugh, cringe, repent for laughing (in that order) and then pray that I am never the recipient
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
One fo the narratives of this campaign season has been evangelicals newfound freedom from the tyranny of the Republican party. Ironically, the seeds to the narrative were sown back in
Matthew Lee AndersonBlogging
It’s no secret that as the ranks of bloggers has increased, the need for more effective tools to find the truly hidden gems in the blogging community has increased as well. Those blogs that routinely produce excellent content–see here, here […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
File this one under the “Questions worth Asking” category. Rob Moll has an excellent summation of a few articles highlighting the way medical expenses are altering how we think about end-of-life decisions and the recommendations doctors make: Certainly life is […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
In 2005, Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins reinvigorated the nearly moribund franchise and introduced a needed sense of gravitas into the comic book genre. Now, three years later, he has returned with The Dark Knight, a riveting and thoughtful exploration of […]
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
It has been brought to my attention that we are currently bombarding folks who read us by RSS with a lot of spam links. Apologies for this--no one hates
Keith E. BuhlerUncategorized
John Mark Reynolds at Middlebrow laments the woes of the Extreme Atheist. "It turns out that just as belief in a God of love is no absolute barrier against
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
In his remarks during his remarkable series on the differences between Islam and Christianity's theories of Just War, our very own Tex wrote: Islamic political theory on the
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
It is easy to turn a blind eye to G.K. Chesterton's anti-Semitism on grounds that he got so much else right, and on grounds that Chesterton&
Keith E. BuhlerFilm Reviews/Hollywood
Wall-E is one of those movies where the less you know about it the better you’ll enjoy it. For that reason, I am going to give you smart
Matthew Lee AndersonScience
Criticizing organized religion is easy to do. In fact, it is a favored pastime for many evangelical and post-evangelical Christians who can only see institutionalized religion as "dead.