The Archive
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
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
Jeremy MannFormation
Living to Work
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
The City and Arthur Brooks
Matthew Lee AndersonReading the Hymns
Reading the Hymns: For the Beauty of the Earth
TexUncategorized
Hijabistas: A Lesson in Cultural Activism
Matthew Lee Anderson
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
Matthew Lee Anderson
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)
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
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
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 […]