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The Decline of Divorce

Pamela Paul, author of Starter Marriages, examines the restigmatization of divorce within the upper middle classes: “That this change has occurred mainly among the affluent suggests it’s not just

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Mad Men and Conservative Nostalgia

Mike Cosper: At one level, these emerging shows seem only to take advantage of the Mad Men fad to do what television and entertainment at their worst have never ceased

Andrew WalkerUncategorized

Rick Santorum's "Constitutional Illiteracy?"

Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post’s conservative beat reporter, has an all-out assault on Rick Santorum’s constitutional views—going so far as to call him “constitutionally illiterate” and

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Standing with Sojourners: When Progressive isn't Progressive Enough

Sojourners, the bastion of evangelical progressivism, has found itself in a maelstrom of criticism. Sojourners rejected an advertisement by Believe Out Loud, an interdenominational outfit dedicated to helping churches and

Kevin WhiteUncategorized

Why You Go After Sloppy Thinking and Conspiracy Theories

One popular idea last week, after the release of Obama’s “long form” birth certificate, was that it would make no difference. The convinced are beyond evidence, the idea goes,

Cate MacDonaldUncategorized

The Thing About Princesses

I looked through a blog today called “Kate Middleton for the Win,” which was basically a bunch of pictures of Miss Middleton leading her glamorous post-engagement life, captioned with

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Raging against God.

Mere-O alumnus Keith Buhler has an interesting review of Peter Hitchens' book over at The Examined Life, the excellent online bimonthly from the a place where you should

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

A Theology of Presence in the Twenty First Century

I'm gearing up for my presentation on the theology of presence for the twenty-first century for the upcoming Christian Web Conference out at Biola.  The conference is

Andrew WalkerUncategorized

Mark Tooley Interview Part III

AW: As a political conservative, where has evangelicalism failed in your opinion? MT: Obviously, evangelicals were mostly late to the resistance against abortion on demand.  Too many, I think, confused

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Douthat and Sullivan on Monogamy

Ross Douthat: When social conservatives talk about restoring the link between sex, monogamy and marriage, they often have these kinds of realities in mind. The point isn’t that we

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

The Movies are Dead: The Sequel

Mark Harris: The good news is that the four-quadrant theory of marketing may now be eroding. The bad news is that it's giving way to something worse—

Kevin WhiteUncategorized

Understand Your Neighbor

Today Kevin DeYoung shares some key points from Gary Dorrien's The Making of American Liberal Theology. DeYoung offers not a critique but a description, reminding us that theological