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Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

The Dispatch (Podcast) with Jim Belcher

In this episode, I talk with Jim Belcher of Deep Church fame, which was one of the most talked about books in 2009. In our conversation, we go over whether and how "Deep Church" fits in with Protesta

Andrew WalkerUncategorized

Lord, Save Us from Poorly Made Documentaries

Lord, Save Us from Poorly Made Documentaries

Jeremy MannFormation

Living to Work

Living to Work

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

The City and Arthur Brooks

The City and Arthur Brooks

Matthew Lee AndersonReading the Hymns

Reading the Hymns: For the Beauty of the Earth

Reading the Hymns: For the Beauty of the Earth

TexUncategorized

Hijabistas: A Lesson in Cultural Activism

Hijabistas: A Lesson in Cultural Activism

Matthew Lee Anderson

Theology amidst the Disciplines - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Milliner has typically astute thoughts on the relationship–it’s a stormy one, where it exists at all–between beauty and the theology of Karl Barth.  In the comments (which are all worth reading), he writes: But I found that Barthian concerns did […]

Matthew Lee AndersonEducation

The April Recap

The April Recap

Matthew Lee Anderson

A Sword Between the Sexes - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Like us here at Mere-O, Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen likes C.S. Lewis. As an undergrad, she was drawn to his vision of a Christianity, which fuses intellectual robustness with piety and a lively imagination.  She found in him a subtle […]

Matthew Lee AndersonMetaphysics (Ontology)

The Expansiveness of Time - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Tomorrow, my experience of time will dramatically change. Over the past six months, I have been working for an international corporation in what amounted to a digital stockroom.  It was the sort of job that would turn the most hardened […]

Cate MacDonaldDevotionalFormation

Because of My Mother - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

As I type this I am watching a smug and self-important young woman on a Sunday morning show give a monologue on The Pill. On this Mother’s Day, she is telling the nation how great it is that women no […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Reading the Hymns: Jesus Paid it All - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

If there’s a hymn that encapsulates the impulse and theology behind the evangelical revivals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, “Jesus Paid it All” is it. But the “Jesus Paid it All” that was brought to prominence by […]