The Archive
Andrew WalkerUncategorized
Perspective
Matthew Lee Anderson
How Great Thou Art is as close as a hymn can come to a ‘controversial hymn’ these days. N.T. Wright targeted the final verse in his book on the resurrection, using it to highlight the problems of the contemporary escapist […]
Matthew Lee AndersonReading the Hymns
Reading the Hymns: An Invitation
Andrew WalkerEconomics and Business
Robert Parham from EthicsDaily.com has a proposal for healthcare reform: Get it Passed! Filled with rhetorically charged missives which casts healthcare opponents as bourgeoisie and “individualistic,” Parham, who myopically makes no mention of abortion mandates, reduces the argument between the […]
Andrew WalkerPolitics
Finally, the healthcare debate—at least one part of the debate—is being argued appropriately: around First Principles. The manner in which the Obama Administration is wishing to deliver on a campaign promise is startling. No less than bypassing standard procedure and […]
Matthew Lee AndersonPro-Life
Weekend Action: Health Care in the House
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
Walking as Political Expression
Matthew Lee AndersonAnthropologyembodimentTheology and Practice
Questioning the Body: A Plea for Help
Matthew Lee AndersonMetaphysics (Ontology)
“Dualism” is a dirty word. Whether it refers to bodies and souls, men and women, reason and emotion, gender and sex, binary thinking is no longer in. The rejection of dualisms takes different forms, depending on which intellectual tradition you’re […]
Jeremy MannTheology and PracticeFormation
Can a Man Be Profitable to God?
Matthew Lee Anderson
Modern interpretation and preaching about the Song of Songs is largely characterized by its reaction against classical notions of ‘allegory’ that mitigated the sexual content of the book by making it all about YHWH and his people. The defensive posture […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
In light of Rhett’s interesting (and true!) thoughts on what novels do for us, I was intrigued to read Francis Watson’s rather critical comments of their form in western literature: The assumption that ‘love’ (or ‘romantic love’) is the primary […]