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Matthew Lee Anderson

Reading the Hymns: How Great Thou Art - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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

Reading the Hymns: An Invitation

Andrew WalkerEconomics and Business

Rhetoric v. Substance - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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

Healthcare and the Rule of Law - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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

Weekend Action: Health Care in the House

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Walking as Political Expression

Walking as Political Expression

Matthew Lee AndersonAnthropologyembodimentTheology and Practice

Questioning the Body: A Plea for Help

Questioning the Body: A Plea for Help

Matthew Lee AndersonMetaphysics (Ontology)

Which Dualism, Whose Description? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“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?

Can a Man Be Profitable to God?

Matthew Lee Anderson

The Frivolity of Beauty - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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

Novels against Marriage - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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 […]