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Keith E. Buhler

Flirting with Christianity - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Faith, it drives me away But it turns me on Like a strangers love -Muse With regard to a Jewish agnostic friend of ours, Matt Anderson once remarked that he is “flirting with Christianity.” This friend of ours is a […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

An Excercise in Futility: World Series Picks - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I am now intrigued by the possibility of picking every series wrong except for one (Cardinals in round one). My picks for the Division series champions: Mets and A’s. Reality: Cardinals and Tigers. I should pick the Cardinals for Gary’s […]

Matthew Lee AndersonEducation

Those Crazy Thinkers in the Past Thought We Should Teach Our Children How to Use Language

Those Crazy Thinkers in the Past Thought We Should Teach Our Children How to Use Language

Matthew Lee AndersonEducation

Looking for a Great Latin Curriculum?

Looking for a Great Latin Curriculum?

Matthew Lee AndersonembodimentAnthropology

The Divine Light: Augustine's De Magistro and Edwards's A Divine and Supernatural Light - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In the last couple of days I have read Augustine’s De Magistro or The Teacher, which concerns the nature of true learning. To give a clumsy paraphrase of the subtle dialogue with his son, Adeodatus, he argues that learning (all […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Shenandoah: A Film You are not Likely to See These Days - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Recently, I watched the 1965 Civil War film Shenandoah starring the lovable Jimmy Stewart. The film deals with the question of what it means to be an American, as seen through the lives of the Anderson family, of which Stewart’s […]

TexTheology and Practice

The Lamp of the Body

The Lamp of the Body

Keith E. BuhlerUncategorized

Washington Post on "Facing the Giants"

Washington Post on "Facing the Giants"

Matthew Lee AndersonrevelationTheology and Practice

Identity and Religious Pluralism: A Reply to an Email

Identity and Religious Pluralism: A Reply to an Email

Matthew Lee Anderson

JP II and Islam - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

George Wiegel takes on the notion that Benedict has taken a different stance toward Islam then Pope John Paul II. This quote by John Paul II, well, seems to prove the point: “Whoever knows the Old and New Testaments, and […]

Matthew Lee AndersonSports

Reason #104 to Read Mere-O

Reason #104 to Read Mere-O

Matthew Lee AndersonSports

Small Attempts at Ingenuity

Small Attempts at Ingenuity