The Archive

Every essay.

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Reflecting on GodBlogCon

Every now and then, someone will ask me why I blog. I'm used to rolling out answers like, "It builds the writing habit for you" and

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

Money Doesn't Matter: The Indianapolis Mayoral Race and Mike Huckabee

One of the main arguments against Mike Huckabee has been his lack of funds. Someone, the argument goes, will have to outspend Hillary to win the generals, and because Huck ticks off those oh-so-wealthy fiscal conservatives, he won’t stand a […]

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

One Sabbath: The One Campaign and Evangelicals

The One Campaign has much in common with evangelical Christians, and yet I have seen remarkably little involvement among evangelicals in their efforts. But there's some good reason

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Smuggling In the Gospel: Lewis's Aesthetics

The current featured essay at In Pursuit of Truth, the journal of the C.S. Lewis Foundation, is Phillip Harrold's "Smuggling for God:  What the Emerging Church

Matthew Lee AndersonGender

Gendered Language and Social Change: The Overton Window and Feminine Pronouns

Language isn't static. There is no returning to the 'thees' and 'thous' of the King James Bible, at least in popular discourse. But the

Matthew Lee AndersonTechnology

The Future of the Web Realized?

On October 17th, I penned these words regarding the future of the internet: That is, a smart application creator will develop applications that collect and share data across platforms (MySpace

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

Huckabee's Fiscal Conservatism(!)

If campaigns were a measure of a candidate's economic policy, there would be no questions about Mike Huckabee's fiscal conservatism.  He has gotten more mileage for

Matthew Lee Anderson

Virtuosic Self-Referentiality

James Poulos nails the attitude of my generation: In a nutshell, significant numbers of young people, mainly in Los Angeles and New York, have come up in a popular culture that refines the art of self-referentiality to a razor’s edge. […]

Matthew Lee AndersonGender

Dissenting Opinion: Feminine Inclusive Pronouns

***Every now and then, I like to procure dissenting opinions to items I have written from people whom I know have thought a lot about certain issues. I recently wrote

Matthew Lee AndersonPro-Life

Moral Federalism: Does A President's Abortion Policy Matter?

George F. Will says "no." Many, perhaps most, Americans, foggy about the workings of their government, think that overturning Roe would make abortion, one of the nation'

Keith E. Buhler

The Task in Aesthetics

4 things we have to explain: 1. The diversity of tastes and preferences in beauty. For example, modern vs. classical painting, ballet vs. modern dance, avant garde french drama vs. 50’s musical films, etc. 2. The universality of tastes and […]

Matthew Lee AndersonSports

World Series Champs: Boston Red Sox

The Red Sox have won the World Series. That's not the real story, though.  The real story is that I was 4-7 in my playoff predictions this