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Andrew WalkerPolitics

Young Republicans: The New Materialists

Young republicans make peace with same-sex marriage and abortion issues for pragmatic reasons. Should Christians leave the party?

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

A Survival Guide for the Upcoming Political Onslaught

We are faced by a political onslaught. This is a survival guide for you to get through it without losing your soul.

Kevin WhitePolitics

But What’s Conservative?

I’ve been following Matt’s recent posts on the culture wars with quiet interest.* He’s already pointed to ambiguities in the term “culture wars”. But in light of his latest post on the culture wars and conservatism, I feel inclined to […]

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

The Ongoing Relevance of Social Conservatism

Every four years, pundits praise the death and irrelevance of social conservatism only to be surprised when a politician that identifies with the movement becomes nationally relevant, even if he

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

Conscience and Conservatives: What role should it play in public debate?

We’ve all been whipped into a frenzy over Rush Limbaugh’s idiotic insults of a Georgetown law student, a controversy I have been fastidiously trying to ignore.  Errors often compound faster than interest, and responding to one outlandish statement with apoplexy […]

Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsPolitical Theory

The Rachel Held Evans Conversation: Why I am a Conservative

Rachel Held Evans' readers ask all kinds of hard questions.  As in really hard questions. There's are thoughts on several topics there that may be unfamiliar to

Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsPolitical Theology

Why I am a (Political) Conservative: A Discussion at Relevant

The good folks over at Relevant Magazine invited me to chip in my thoughts on a series they've been doing on Christians and politics. You should read the

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

Komen and the Politicized Body

Ted Olsen at Christianity Today put together a number of interesting pieces on the Komen controversy. Russell Moore‘s and Mollie Hemingway’s are, I think, especially worth your time. I chimed in with a few hasty thoughts of my own, which […]

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

When Religious Liberties Wither

It's hard to find a better reason why I'm a raving fan of Douthat than his column from this weekend about the Obama administration's

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

Newt and the Principles and Practices of the Presidency

We’re well past the point of overkill on all the Gingrich business, and the question will be by the wayside after tomorrow.  The fellow tanked in his last debate and seems to be up against it now in Florida. But […]

Andrew WalkerPolitics

Newt Gingrich, Evangelicals, & Imperfectability

This post is coauthored by Andrew Walker and Eric TeetselIn recent days, Mere Orthodoxy has played host to several essays on Newt Gingrich. Matthew Lee Anderson—a friend and co-

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

The Missing Premise: One more on Gingrich, Marriage, and the White House

The discussion around here the past couple days has been top notch, the sort of civil and spirited roundabout that we ought to have more often.  Don't let