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Matthew Lee Anderson

A Trio of Evening Links

With school starting up again, there’s a new threat to teachers and professors: YouTube. Those pesky cell phones will once again incriminate the crazy, the boring, and the downright bad professors. Like ratemyprofessors.com, the truth will eventually win out–professors who […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

The Necessity of Inquiry into the Christian Faith in the Proper Spirit

A commenter on Mere-O pointed out that the intellectual Jews skeptically asked Jesus “who is my neighbor?” to get out of the problem of dealing with what they already knew to be true about the Gospel. This came in response […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Chesterton Quote Finder

This is a really, really cool and generous service. Hopefully with they won’t be inundated with requests. I’ve already put mine in. (HT: The American Chesterton Society Blog)

Matthew Lee AndersonBooks

Saints Behaving Badly: A Book Review

The Christian Church is often accused of glossing over its own sins while condemning those of others, especially the Catholic Church, as it has a long history of sins to

Matthew Lee AndersonTheology and Practice

Is the Christian Faith Simple?

Yes and No, states Dr. Fred Sanders on Middlebrow. Once theologians (scholarly or layman) get going on the questions of the atonement, incarnation, or the Trinity, the discussion gets deeply

Matthew Lee AndersonembodimentAnthropology

Why Are We So Busy? (Suspicions of Big Business III)

Lately, I’ve blogged about big business and some potential problems including the way people misplace their desire for fulfillment into corporate success and the cultural problems caused by large organizations. Now, I want to focus on the overwhelming busyness of […]

Matthew Lee AndersonEpistemology

Do we think in language?

The linguistic turn taken by most 20th century philosophers included a tendency to assume that when we think, we think solely in language. When reading Dallas Willard's mind-

Matthew Lee AndersonHermeneuticsMeaning and HermeneuticsScienceTheology and Practice

We are the Meaning Makers

If I were Jason Kuznicki, I'd be irritated. Here's Jim's explanation of his "puzzle": It's all about trying to find

Keith E. BuhlerCultureMusic Reviews

What's the best rock and roll song of all time?

And now for something completely different. Let's save the questions about the nature of music, it's relationship to mathematics, how in the world it taps into

Matthew Lee AndersonAnthropologyembodimentTheology and Practice

Thoughts on Willard's Renovation of the Heart: The Tyranny of Emotions in Modernity

One of the key modern texts on spiritual formation is Dallas Willard's Renovation of the Heart. The first half of the book contains a meta-discussion of the

Matthew Lee AndersonEvangelicalismTheology and Practice

I am a Neo-Fundamentalist

Scot McKnight of Jesus Creed, a prominent author and scholar, claimed last friday that "neo-fundamentalism" is on the horizon. He followed it today with a list of

Keith E. BuhlerAnthropologyPhilosophyembodimentLiberal ArtsTheology and Practice

Responsibility

A friend of mine once remarked that a certain paster at the Anaheim Vineyard is a very "responsible" man. I agreed, and thought nothing of it at the