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Matthew Lee AndersonFilm Reviews/Hollywood

Movie Week at Mere-O: Juno

Movie Week at Mere-O: Juno

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorizedFilm Reviews/Hollywood

Movie Week at Mere-O: Michael Clayton

Movie Week at Mere-O: Michael Clayton

Matthew Lee AndersonLiterature

The Greatness of Bottom: GK Chesterton on the Hero of Midsums

The Greatness of Bottom: GK Chesterton on the Hero of Midsums

TexFormation

Evangelical Supererogation? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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

Complimentary Folly - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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

Community out of Necessity: The Limitations of the Body and the Formation of the Church - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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

Evangelicals and the Early Church

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorizedTechnology

The Hoodied Gods: New Steps Forward for Video Games

The Hoodied Gods: New Steps Forward for Video Games

Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsUncategorized

Dobson Endorses Huckabee: Why Now?

Dobson Endorses Huckabee: Why Now?

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

The Rise and Fall of Mitt Romney

The Rise and Fall of Mitt Romney

Keith E. Buhler

Fasting For Joy - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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

The Brokenness of the Body (for Ash Wednesday) - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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 […]