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Matthew Lee AndersonPro-Life

Cliff's Notes: The Supreme Court's Decision on Partial Birth Abortion

Mere O neighbor and friend Richard Radcliffe has done the dirty work of extracting the choice quotations from the Supreme Court's recent opinion upholding the Partial Birth Abortion

Matthew Lee AndersonDiscussion Leading

Fostering Conversations that Count: Common Objects of Love

The Problem of Commonality: One of the problems (and one of the joys!) of informal conversation is that while it is often directed toward a topic, the backgrounds of the participants often diverge so widely that it makes progress on […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Chesterton's Infuriating Style, or, Defending Chesterton against the Lewisians

The increasingly prominent and popular (as well as uncannily accurate!) Dawn Eden pointed out a discussion about Chesterton at the Relevant Magazine message boards. A number of writers vented frustration at Chesterton’s style, so I penned the following response in […]

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Biola's Next President? Barry H. Corey (Updated)

Update: Frank Beckwith suggests that Corey's "generous orthodoxy" may be problematic for a few faculty members. His assessment is fairly strong, in fact: "This appointment

Keith E. BuhlerDevotional

Finding Gratitude

Perhaps it is a confession of vanity, but when I was in my teenage years, I hated zits. I was perhaps no more pimply than the other folks at my high school, but it was enough! I hated the deleterious […]

Matthew Lee AndersonDiscussion Leading

Fostering Conversations that Count: The Discussion Worldview

In order for educators to promote great discussions, it is crucial for them to understand the beliefs necessary for great discussions to occur. In other words, there are certain commitments that educators and participants need to have in place for […]

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Americans United for Life

Readers in the Chicago area may be interested in this opportunity.  If I were already out there, I'd be there: Americans United for Life presents their annual AUL

TexUncategorized

City Life

I walked the city tonight. I walked the city tonight with eyes wide open and wept over what I saw. I went looking for life but saw death and pain

Matthew Lee AndersonDiscussion Leading

Fostering Conversations that Count: Questions vs. Answers

It is a theme that I have touched on in several posts now, so I thought I would put it into an installment of its own. Managing the interaction between

Matthew Lee AndersonDiscussion Leading

Fostering Conversations that Count: The Biblical Basis for Discussion

But is it biblical? Such an issue is of probably no interest to most educators or businessmen, but to those who work in Christian ministry (or Christian education in general) it is essential. I have interacted with some more conservative […]

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Cho's Disturbing Saga (Updated).

Updated:  Removed a confusion from the last paragraph.   Also, Hugh is furious at NBC, as are these folks.  On the other side of the aisle, this bloke wants the tapes

Matthew Lee AndersonBlogging

Google reading our Email?

Alister Cameron, who is guest blogging at Problogger, mined Google's Blogsearch patent application to determine how Blogsearch ranks posts.  It is somewhat surprising to a novice like me