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Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
When you write a book, it's easy to allow the pressures of marketing and selling to eclipse the more basic, fundamental reasons that you sent out on the
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
I had the joy of being invited to talk with the folks at Issues, etc. yesterday about my two columns on Pat Robertson. There were a number of excellent callers
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
In the introduction to Earthen Vessels, I wrote that my hope was that the book would generate conversation within our quirky movement about our physical bodies and the role they play in God’s redemptive purposes in our lives and the […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
My friend Joe has taken up the Overton window of late as a way into explaining how cultures decay. I know we are supposed to be beyond that fear-based
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
Trevin Wax is one of the most thoughtful and careful thinkers in the Christian blogging community, so it was an honor to have him endorse Earthen Vessels. But it was also fun (and challenging) to have him toss some fastballs […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
Chris Krycho knows how to ask hard questions, and he simply does not pull punches in his interview at his blog Pillar on the Rock. First, start with Chris'
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
No epilogue, I pray you; for your play needs no excuse. Never excuse; for when the players are all dead, there needs none to be blamed. William Shakespeare, A Midsummer
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
In Christianity Today: In September 2010, Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, ignited a blogging and media firestorm by arguing that yoga and Christianity are incompatible. “The embrace of yoga,” he wrote, “is a symptom of our postmodern […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
Ted Peters, as quoted by Peter Leithart: “The growing myth of genetic determinism blows first in one direction: if we are programmed totally by our DNA, then what we think is human freedom is in fact a delusion. Then the […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
If you live in the Denver area, I'd love to meet you. I'll be speaking at Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church on Sunday, August 7th at 7:
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
The final installment (for now) of some of the things that people have been saying about Earthen Vessels. Cole Huffman, a pastor down in Memphis, did a little creative expansion on the tattoos chapter that is very much worth your […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
See part one for the qualifiers, which happen to be necessary. Otherwise, here we do go. First off, I was subject to my first open letter, which happened to be quite a bit more generous than most open letters: Jesus […]