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In Awe of Bodies: How the Olympians Remind Us of Our Humanity

Bodies of Olympic athletes are beautiful and remnd us of our humanity, argues John Dyer.

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"You Don't Have a Soul": C.S. Lewis Never Said It

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." -C.S. Lewis never said this (and it's probably not right).

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An Aspen in a Forest of Pines: Thinking through Asexuality

Note from Matt: I first met Chris Krycho after he reviewed Earthen Vessels and proceeded to grill me about it.  He’s a thoughtful fellow and wrote the following.  As I had been planning on addressing the same piece soon, I […]

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What Robertson Means for Marriage

Part two of my thoughts on Robertson and marriage, over at the Washington Post. My basic argument there is that the reaction should be seen as a genuine sign of

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Pat Robertson, Bodies, and Divorce

That’s the subject of my short essay over at Relevant Magazine. I sound a note that will doubtlessly be a familiar one to readers of Mere-O and of Earthen Vessels, but the brouhaha affords evangelicals an opportunity to re-examine our […]

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Let's Call it Danish Gymnastics: The Yoga Body

In the fall of last year, Al Mohler initiated a firestorm by suggesting that “yoga cannot be fully extricated from its spiritual roots in Hinduism and Buddhism.” In making his argument, Mohler was drawing on Stefanie Symen’s The Subtle Body. […]

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Five Books on the Body for Evangelicals

Evangelicals care about the physical body. Here are five books on embodiment for evangelicals who are interested in learning more.

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One more on Challies/Evans-Gate

The first go-around was here.  Now Tim Ricchuiti has chimed in with some smart thoughts: Zoom out a bit further: why would the husband have say in how his

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An Imperfect Beauty

Tim Challies: Does a woman need to remain beautiful to her husband? Yes, she does! But this does not mean that she needs to remain beautiful in the way society

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Earthen Vessels: The Endorsements (Pt. 3)

The final round of endorsements: “What does Christianity have to say about the body? Much more than you might think. Matthew Lee Anderson—one of evangelicalism’s brightest young writers—

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Earthen Vessels: The Endorsements (Pt. 2)

Strap in, because the next few weeks might be an onslaught of shameless self-promotion for this book. I hope to write some more personal reflections about the process, what

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Earthen Vessels: The Endorsements (Pt. 1)

We're a little over two weeks away from the release of my first book. I've got all the nervousness of a first-time author.  When I