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Matthew Lee AndersonFilm Reviews/Hollywood
Movie Week at Mere-O: Juno
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorizedFilm Reviews/Hollywood
Movie Week at Mere-O: Michael Clayton
Matthew Lee AndersonLiterature
The Greatness of Bottom: GK Chesterton on the Hero of Midsums
TexFormation
I will always be among the first to sharply criticize the abuses of ritual and liturgy that so often plague the older and “higher” churches in the world. It is as though they never quite understood one of the assumptions […]
Tex
Painfully self-aware people cringe every time they receive a compliment. A simple, “You look lovely today,” sends them into a convulsion of excuses as they trip over their tongues in an effort to assure themselves and the world that they […]
Matthew Lee AndersonChurch
In my reflections for Ash Wednesday, I claimed that it was “through death—in suffering, in weakness, in solitude—that the communion of saints begins. The brokenness of Jesus’ body is the birth of his people.” While I focused mainly on the […]
Keith E. BuhlerUncategorized
Evangelicals and the Early Church
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorizedTechnology
The Hoodied Gods: New Steps Forward for Video Games
Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsUncategorized
Dobson Endorses Huckabee: Why Now?
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
The Rise and Fall of Mitt Romney
Keith E. Buhler
There’s hidden sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundboxes stuffed full of anything, no music. If the brain and belly are burning clean with fasting, every moment a new song comes out […]
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
On Ash Wednesday, we are confronted by the inescapable frailty of human existence. As we turn toward the chief penitential season of the Christian calendar, we are exhorted to number our days, to realize that death is the trumpet that […]