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Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

Conscience and Conservatives: What role should it play in public debate? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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

The Rachel Held Evans Conversation: Why I am a Conservative

Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsPolitical Theology

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

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

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

Komen and the Politicized Body - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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

When Religious Liberties Wither

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

Newt and the Principles and Practices of the Presidency - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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

Newt Gingrich, Evangelicals, & Imperfectability

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

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

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

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

John Newton, Newt Gingrich, and the Real Issue for his Candidacy: A Guest Post by Jerry L. Walls

John Newton, Newt Gingrich, and the Real Issue for his Candidacy: A Guest Post by Jerry L. Walls

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

What we Expect from our Presidents - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The maelstrom of criticism on yesterday’s post has all been good fun and even better learning, the sort of raucous and respectful comment threads that are simply a joy. It’s got me thinking, though, of what we expect from a […]

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

Evangelicals and the Gingrich Candidacy: The End of our Moral Witness on Marriage

Evangelicals and the Gingrich Candidacy: The End of our Moral Witness on Marriage

Andrew WalkerPolitics

Are Evangelicals Really Conservative? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

By far, the most important (and provocative) book I’ve read this year belongs to perennial controversialist, D.G. Hart. His From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism is proving to be quite the conversation starter in […]