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Matthew Lee AndersonPro-Life

The Pauline Principle and Stupak's Consistency: Critiquing Matt Yglesias

The Pauline Principle and Stupak's Consistency: Critiquing Matt Yglesias

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Marriage and Premarital Sex: Christianity Today's Village Green

Marriage and Premarital Sex: Christianity Today's Village Green

Jeremy MannembodimentAnthropology

Susan Sontag on Beauty and Gender - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Today as I set-up shop in a line at the Los Angeles DMV I happened to read an incisive essay published in Vogue forty years ago. The article was written by Susan Sontag, and my profit from it proves that […]

Gary Hartenburg

Thomas Says: Why We Shouldn't Kill Each Other (And Why Sometimes We Should) - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

This question really is a no-brainer. It’s wrong to kill innocent people, right? Right. On a question like this, the answer isn’t surprising, so we need to pay attention to the reason why Thomas thinks it’s wrong to kill an […]

Matthew Lee AndersonAnthropologyembodimentTheology and Practice

Industrial Sex: Freeing the Body from Consequences

Industrial Sex: Freeing the Body from Consequences

Matthew Lee AndersonembodimentAnthropology

The Unintelligible Body: Chomsky on Galileo and Newton - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In one very important sense, the scientific revolution was over before it began.  At least if Noam Chomsky is right. In his collection of essays, On Nature and Language, Chomsky argues that Galileo adopted a mechanical method of intelligibility.  In […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Body Matters: A New Book By......Me - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The ink is officially dry.  Okay, it’s been dry for about a week.  And I can’t keep it in any longer. I am really, really excited to announce that I have signed a contract with Bethany House, a division of […]

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

The Discipline of Listening to Sermons - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

As a lifelong Christian, I have heard countless sermons.  Some were good, but many were not. At some point in my time at Biola, I realized that there were several practical disciplines that I needed to cultivate to make the […]

Matthew Lee AndersonEducation

Education, the Individual, and the Affections: Richard Weaver vs. C.S. Lewis

Education, the Individual, and the Affections: Richard Weaver vs. C.S. Lewis

Matthew Lee Anderson

Robert George, Natural Law, and the New York Times - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Robert George continues to make the news. The author of the contentious Manhattan Declaration was profiled recently by the NY Times Magazine, prompting a number of responses among evangelicals.  George is a leading American proponent of natural law theory, which […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Mere-Orthodoxy: 2009 in Review - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The Lord was extremely kind to us in 2009, and we have much to be grateful for.  We have a number of new readers, which is a huge blessing.  We also brought on some new writers, and I am very […]

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

An Invitation to Worship: The Angels in the Christmas Story

An Invitation to Worship: The Angels in the Christmas Story