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TexFormation
Gary Thomas, founder of The Center for Evangelical Spirituality, graciously answered my critiques of his pragmatic and helpful book, “Sacred Marriage.” The conversation continues below with my thoughts on excerpts of his helpful response. I’ve read your primary critique once […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
In honor of the Oscars this Sunday, I thought I would devote this week to the five films nominated for Best Picture. So far I have reviewed Juno, Michael Clayton, and Atonement. It might be tempting for some Christians to […]
Matthew Lee AndersonFilm Reviews/Hollywood
Movie Week at Mere-O: Atonement
Matthew Lee AndersonFilm Reviews/Hollywood
Movie Week at Mere-O: Juno
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorizedFilm Reviews/Hollywood
Movie Week at Mere-O: Michael Clayton
Matthew Lee AndersonLiterature
The Greatness of Bottom: GK Chesterton on the Hero of Midsums
TexFormation
I will always be among the first to sharply criticize the abuses of ritual and liturgy that so often plague the older and “higher” churches in the world. It is as though they never quite understood one of the assumptions […]
Tex
Painfully self-aware people cringe every time they receive a compliment. A simple, “You look lovely today,” sends them into a convulsion of excuses as they trip over their tongues in an effort to assure themselves and the world that they […]
Matthew Lee AndersonChurch
In my reflections for Ash Wednesday, I claimed that it was “through death—in suffering, in weakness, in solitude—that the communion of saints begins. The brokenness of Jesus’ body is the birth of his people.” While I focused mainly on the […]
Keith E. BuhlerUncategorized
Evangelicals and the Early Church
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorizedTechnology
The Hoodied Gods: New Steps Forward for Video Games
Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsUncategorized
Dobson Endorses Huckabee: Why Now?