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Matthew Lee Anderson
(Apologies to the reader for a bit more abstract fare this evening.) Meet Plotinus. He’s a neo-Platonic philosopher from the 3rd century A.D., and is more well known for his famous pupil–St. Augustine–than his own work. Plotinus’ central contribution […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
In reflecting on the relationship between story and the rules of the game, Brian Phillips writes: What that means is that, if we care about the sport as a story, we have to hope that the people in charge of […]
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The Lighthearted Seriousness of Confession
Matthew Lee Anderson
There is no better example of the interesting and surprising collisions that mark the development of our church hymnody than this week’s hymn. While a communion hymn from the Eastern Orthodox tradition, it found its way into both the Episcopalian […]
Jeremy Mann
So, obviously no man is an island—he needs a woman. Together they make a big island, which is why everyone honeymoons in Hawaii… My wife and I are in our mid-twenties, which means every spring our mailbox is full of […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
It’s been a busy week, and there’s been lots of content I haven’t had a chance to comment on. So here’s some of the best content I’ve read or listened to, for your edification. Jonah Goldberg on breaking into to […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
A Letter to a Former Student, on the Occasion of a Difficult Day
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I’ve been reading a (sort-of) autobiography of the Guarneri String Quartet. Sort-of because, as author Arnold Steinhardt points out, one can’t really write an autobiography of a four-man entity. He shares the hilarious and awkward moments in the history of […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
If you ask noted pacifist John Howard Yoder, the answer is unequivocally “yes.” Writes Yoder: The answer of the pre-Constantinian church was negative; the Christian as an agent of God for reconciliation has other things to do than to be […]
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Playing the Theological Syncretism Card
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Or with which doctrine, anyway. That was the question that the folks at Patheos asked a number of evangelical pastors and theologians. The responses are worth reading in full, but Mark Roberts‘ is (not surprisingly) especially good: Let me explain […]