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Matthew Lee AndersonDiscussion Leading

Conversations that Count: How Leaders Lead Discussions - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

*Note: After taking a summer break from this series, I am returning to it and will finish it this fall.  For other posts in the series, see the bottom of this post.* The flexible nature of discussion presents an inherent […]

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorizedBook Reviews

Under Review: Neurosis and Human Growth

Under Review: Neurosis and Human Growth

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

Our Teachable Moment: Learning (the right) Lessons from the War

Our Teachable Moment: Learning (the right) Lessons from the War

Matthew Lee AndersonBook Reviews

Under Review: The Hidden Power of Electronic Culture

Under Review: The Hidden Power of Electronic Culture

Matthew Lee AndersonBook Reviews

The Future and Its Enemies

The Future and Its Enemies

TexInternational Politics

Jihad and Justice: The Two Cities

Jihad and Justice: The Two Cities

Matthew Lee Andersonembodiment

The Body of Music - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Music has a body. Or, as Jeremy Begbie argues in the latest Books and Culture, the expression of music is inseparable from corporeality. Music making and music hearing are ways we engage the physical world. Even in the case of […]

Matthew Lee AndersonTheology and Practice

The Undramatic Universe: Jason Bourne and God

The Undramatic Universe: Jason Bourne and God

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

The Kid Nation that Isn't.

The Kid Nation that Isn't.

Matthew Lee Anderson

The Body Project: A History of American Girls - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“At the close of the twentieth century, the female body poses an enormous problem for American girls, and it does so because of the culture in which we live.” So opens Joan Jacobs Brumberg’s The Body Project:  An Intimate History […]

TexInternational Politics

Jihad and Justice: Islamic Just War Theory, Part 2

Jihad and Justice: Islamic Just War Theory, Part 2

Matthew Lee Anderson

The Possibility of Dogmatism - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Over on Mere-O Abridged (the sidebar), where I highlight interesting articles by attempting a pithy line about them, I highlighted a review of the recently released research indicating that homosexuals can, in fact, change their behavior. The main thrust of […]