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TexPolitics
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
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
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
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(?)
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
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
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?
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
Babies: The Most Endearing Film of 2010
Jeremy MannFilm Reviews/Hollywood
Quite a guy that Mr. Fox
Matthew Lee Anderson
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 […]
TexPolitics
Old and Relevant: Augustine's City of God