The Archive

Every essay.

Matthew Lee AndersonBooks

Sex, Sushi and Salvation: Under Review

Donald Miller of Blue Like Jazz fame gave the world a baptized version of Jack Kerouac's storyized ramblings. Now, Christian George has given us a more orthodox exploration

Keith E. BuhlerUncategorized

The Superstition of Divorce

Check out this funny and frightening and challenging article By Dale Ahlquist: "In 1918, Chesterton wrote a series of articles called "The Superstition of Divorce" for the

Keith E. BuhlerChurch

Bauer/Koester's Unproven Assumptions

For most Christians in most places at most times, believers have desired (and been able) to distinguish between orthodox/faithful members of the Church and heterodox/faithless (seeming) members. The criteria may change, or may be much debated, but the commonest assumption […]

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Can Men and Women be Friends?

We do not value friendship in large part because we do not understand what a "friend" is. Consider Facebook, which is now the barometer of our relational lives.

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

A Question of Marriage: Homosexual Marriage and the Slippery Slope Argument

One of the more popular arguments against the legalization of homosexual marriage is that it will open the door to polygamous marriages, cross-species marriages, incestuous marriages, etc.  The argument

Keith E. BuhlerScience

Evolution does not apply to evolutionists

In a recent comment, the formidable Mr. Falk said, "The noteworthy thing about the universe is that everything appears to be explainable by immutable laws. As Einstein said, '

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

The Machine and Miley Cyrus

The blogosphere has been abuzz with reactions to Vanity Fair's picture of a provocatively posed Miley Cyrus. Cyrus, the star of Disney's Hannah Montana and generally

TexUncategorized

Hot Air or Hard Truths: The Air Force Makes Major Headlines

It has always been an interest of mine to compare the eye-catching slogans and headlines of major newspapers to the content of the articles that follow. Quite often the

Keith E. BuhlerBible

A Biblical Dilemma

Spending ten hours a week in discussion with high school students presents some universal truths about human nature. One such universal truth is that human beings do not like to

Keith E. Buhler

Five Bad Reasons Not to See "Expelled"

The ever-tyrannical majority over at Wikipedia may have won the word-battle to spin Ben Stein’s Expelled as an uninteresting documentary “for Christians and the Discovery Institute,” but no matter… The truth is not killed when angry people stamp on it. […]

Matthew Lee AndersonChurch

The Message of Mission: Leslie Newbigin on the Mission of the Church

In theological circles, the idea of 'mission' is clearly the concept du jour. While the idea of the missio Dei--the mission of God--extends at least as

Matthew Lee AndersonScience

Goodness, Evil, and Darwinian Science

Noah Millman, in commenting upon the Derbyshire dust-up, writes: I continue to believe that both sides of the Darwin vs. Christianity battle are missing the most telling point. We