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I haven't written anything on the recent decision by the California Supreme Court to overturn the ban on homosexual marriage in large part because I haven't
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This is the day whereupon we remember those who have given their lives in service for our country and offer our thanks to those who are currently serving. I remember
Matthew Lee Anderson
Lee Strobel is going to be at Biola University this Tuesday giving away copies of his new DVD, “The Case for Christ.” Those who are in the area shouldn’t miss the opportunity to hear JP Moreland, Mike Erre, Strobel and […]
TexembodimentAnthropology
We also must return to Pascal for a reminder that the biotechnological project cannot turn us human beings from mysterious into manufactured beings. The effort to deny the reality of the fundamental unpredictability of human life that is intrinsic to […]
Matthew Lee AndersonLiterature
While offering his own take on the differences between the respective literary imaginations of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, Martin Cothran offered this substantial and skillful critique
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
Humor me for a minute and allow me to make a significant number of generalizations and assumptions, most of which stem from my experience. Theological liberals often tend to be political liberals as well. In this, they often want the […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
P.J. O’Rourke is a serious thinker. But this is too good to pass up: All politics stink. Even democracy stinks. Imagine if our clothes were selected by the majority of shoppers, which would be teenage girls. I’d be standing here […]
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorizedLiterature
Via Rod Dreher comes this piece by Fr. Dwight Longenecker, who writes: Tolkien disliked allegory so intensely because he felt it was too didactic. It leaves no possibility that any
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Stephen Pinker's diatribe (an appropriate word, I think) has prompted a fair number of responses from some pretty intelligent folks around the blogosphere. The assumption implicit in my
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In honor of Matt’s thought-provoking post last week (how could it be otherwise, with needling statements like, “Husbands and Wives Can’t be Friends!” or eye-stopping suggestions
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
Alfred North Whitehead once said, "Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it.” How do I know? I know Whitehead said this because
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
(Hasty posting does not a good blogger make. Post updated to clear up an idiotic confusion. In this month's issue of The New Republic, Steven Pinker critiques Leon