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Matthew Lee AndersonBooks

Death and Life: An American Theology

Arthur McGill is a relative unknown in American theology. His works have mostly been consigned to the "out-of-print" stacks. A quick Google search for "Arthur

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Quotable: Simon Chan on Technology in the Church

Simon Chan, author of Liturgical Theology and Spiritual Theology, recently sat down with Andy Crouch to discuss Christianity's contemporary expression.  Chan clearly is extremely thoughtful and very grounded

Elliot RavenwoodTechnology

Top 13 Book Hacks for the Library Crowd

One of my favorite blogs is Lifehacker, where the motto is "Don't live to geek, geek to live." Though not quite a geek myself, I enjoy

Matthew Lee AndersonPhilosophy

First Draft: Introduction to the Trial and Death of Socrates

My wife and I will be working for Wheatstone Academy this summer, a summer program designed to help students discover the riches of the Christian mind. To help in that

Matthew Lee Anderson

Anonymous Honesty and the Internet

File this under the “suspicious about new uses of technology” category: there is now an “Honesty Box” application for Facebook which allows members to send anonymous messages to each other. But what could someone possibly want to say to someone […]

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Dog "Art": Yes or No?

A question, dear readers.  Is it art when dogs paint? Wesley J. Smith answers with a resounding "no:" The dog art isn't actually art--at least

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

The One-Woman Ecumenical Movement

"Episcopal Church Appoints First Openly-Muslim Bishop!"  It is now apparently only a matter of time, as an Episcopalian priest has revealed that she thinks of herself as

Matthew Lee AndersonBooks

Book Review: Bringing Down the House

How did six MIT students beat Vegas (and a number of other casinos) at Blackjack? Bringing Down the House, the bestseller from Ben Mezrich, provides the fascinating details about a

Matthew Lee AndersonDiscussion Leading

Conversations that Count: The Rules of Discussion

“The codes is more what you’d call……guidelines.” Or so says the inimitable Captain Barbossa of Pirates of the Caribbean. When it comes to the rules of leading discussions, it’s an important truth to keep in mind: the excellent discussion leader […]

TexUncategorized

Notes From the North

Just a few days ago I had the opportunity to meet up with a Peace Corps volunteer and fellow blogger, Mike Greer, who has been living and working in a

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Quotable: W. Bradford Wilcox on Fathers

W. Bradford Wilcox, the author of the widely praised Soft Patriarchs, New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands, sat down with Kathryn Lopez of NRO to talk fatherhood in

Matthew Lee AndersonDiscussion Leading

Conversations that Count: The Merits of the Improv Analogy

One of the most difficult problems in any given discussion is identifying what “the right thing to do” is. The question is extraordinarily difficult because so much of the answer