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Summer in the City? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I’m from a small town.  My life began in Southern California suburbs and as I grew older, my family moved further and further from city life every chance we had, until we finally settled in the antithesis of a booming […]

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

Romney Reinventing Himself....Again - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

2012 is a long ways away, but that hasn’t stopped speculators from gaming the Presidential race on the Republican side, where there is no definitive frontrunner.  Partly what makes the Republican party so intriguing these days is the lack of […]

Cate MacDonaldembodimentAnthropology

On Lent and Hard Times: An Introduction - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

February 17th is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the season of Lent. Around this time last year I wrote a reflection on fasting as it is portrayed in Isaiah, wondering at the nature of a true fast. I think it’s sort […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

The New Dating Game - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Charlotte Allen has  a long piece in The Weekly Standard that highlights the contemporary dating game and the pathologies–there’s really no other word–that drive it.   From her conclusion: The whole point of the sexual and feminist revolutions was to […]

Matthew Lee AndersonChurch

The Emerging Church is Dead(?)

The Emerging Church is Dead(?)

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

The Witness of Being Weird - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

One of the main themes of Evangel’s early days was evangelicals’ complex relationship to culture. I recently came across Evangel contributor Dr. Russell Moore’s astute analysis on the question from 2007 in the pages of Touchstone, the other ecumenical magazine of […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Modernity and Medieval Science - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Like Matt Milliner, I’m impressed by David Schaengold’s post over at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen, wherein he relates observation decks, science, and the joy of observation: Being happy merely to see and to understand, as scientists are, is the […]

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

A Biological Basis for Traditional Marriage?

A Biological Basis for Traditional Marriage?

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Babies: The Most Endearing Film of 2010

Babies: The Most Endearing Film of 2010

Jeremy MannFilm Reviews/Hollywood

Quite a guy that Mr. Fox

Quite a guy that Mr. Fox

Matthew Lee Anderson

Marriage in a Media Age - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The report that Mark Sanford didn’t want to include a vow of fidelity in their wedding vows is the least surprising, and the saddest, news I have heard in a while. According to his wife, the discredited governor of South […]

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Old and Relevant: Augustine's City of God

Old and Relevant: Augustine's City of God