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Matthew Lee AndersonAnthropologyembodimentTheology and Practice

God and the Body at Newsweek

God and the Body at Newsweek

TexPolitics

Faction and Revolt: Kyrgyzstan in Light of American Foundations - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Kyrgyzstan is in revolt but it is unclear what the revolt will accomplish.  The opposition parties are demanding democracy and equality, fed up with the cronyism of current President, Kurmanbek Bakiev and convinced that the government is working to undermine […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Mere-O Chats: Joe Carter - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In this episode, Joe Carter and I argue about his book, How to Argue like Jesus, and how the Christian blogging community has fared in striving to do precisely that.

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

How do People Change?

How do People Change?

Matthew Lee AndersonTechnology

Clarity and the Technological Society

Clarity and the Technological Society

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Worthy is the Lamb.

Worthy is the Lamb.

Matthew Lee Anderson

Reading the Hymns (for Holy Saturday): Psalm 13 - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Holy Saturday is the most difficult day of the Easter season.  While it is often overlooked by those who are not members of rigorously liturgical traditions, Holy Saturday reminds us above all of the stark sense  of failure that the […]

Cate MacDonaldTheology and Practice

On Lent and Hard Times: Death to Life

On Lent and Hard Times: Death to Life

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

Why a Cross? Athanasius on Good Friday - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

If any of our own people also inquire, not from love of debate but from love of learning, why Jesus suffered death in none other way save on teh cross, let him also be told that no other way than […]

TexLiberal Arts

Live Music (Reprise)

Live Music (Reprise)

Andrew Walker

Belgium, Burkas, and National Identity - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Belgium is on pace to become the first European country to officially (and indirectly) ban the essence of conservative Islamic female identity: the Burka, according to this article in the UK’s Daily Mail. Of course, the legislation is not worded to […]

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

The Weakness in the Garden - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“Watch and pray, so that you do not enter into temptation.  For the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” “Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we […]