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Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
Now that Mitt Romney has exited the presidential race, it's safe to do a post-mortem on what went wrong. Few have offered more prescient remarks than Joshua
Keith E. Buhler
There’s hidden sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundboxes stuffed full of anything, no music. If the brain and belly are burning clean with fasting, every moment a new song comes out […]
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
On Ash Wednesday, we are confronted by the inescapable frailty of human existence. As we turn toward the chief penitential season of the Christian calendar, we are exhorted to number our days, to realize that death is the trumpet that […]
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
Asceticism is one of the most frequently misunderstood and historically abused aspects of the Christian faith. But it can hardly be ignored. It is common knowledge that the earliest days of the Church were fraught with persecution and martyrdom. As […]
TexFormation
Despite roundly panning Gary Thomas’ book Sacred Marriage last week for it’s fundamentally questionable premise, I have to admit that he has a lot of good things to say in response to the historic trend among Christians to look down […]
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
(Bumped–I realized I put in the wrong timestamp when I set it to automatically post!). For many evangelicals, the idea of regular and church-legislated engagement with spiritual disciplines such as Lent impinges upon the freedom of the individual believer. In […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
When the Oscar nominees were announced, I was mildly surprised to see “Michael Clayton” among the nominees for Best Picture. After seeing it, that mild surprise turned into astonishment. The idea that this film could win Best picture over No […]
Keith E. BuhlerEvangelicalism
“By expecting the Apostles to conform to modern assumptions we run the danger of missing the theological and kerygmatic richness of the Apostles’ use of the OT.” Continuing a line Matt started, here is an interesting article (about 25 pages) […]
TexBooks
Gary Thomas’ Sacred Marriage is a well-reasoned and thoughtful response to the centuries-old tradition of viewing spiritual formation as primarily taking place between an individual and God—a
Keith E. Buhler
You might get fired. Or worse, Expelled.
Keith E. BuhlerPhilosophy
"All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their music at sunrise. To him whose elastic and vigourous thought keeps pace with the sun,
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
The story of South Carolina's Republican primary has been written. Mike Huckabee's campaign is in serious jeopardy, while McCain's road to the White House