Matthew Lee Anderson

Contemporary American literature is one of my (many) weak spots.  And while I suspect some literati might object, reading this essay in the NY Times magazine does little to make me want to emend it.Rophie’s central point is that the current batch of American male authors lack the verve of . . . . Continue Reading »

Leadership Journal just released  a responsible evaluation of the online church movement by Chad Hall.  Hall’s general take is that the question of online church is forcing evangelicals to re-evaluate the presuppositions they are making in their own churches (an argument I am rather . . . . Continue Reading »

This morning’s Wall Street Journal has an article by Jonathan Fitzgerald of PatrolMag on the development of the evangelical intellect.  I have had my differences with Patrol before, but I enjoy dialoging with them and have found them to be gracious in . . . . Continue Reading »

David won’t point it out over here, so I’m going to do it for him.  For those who don’t know, he has been struggling with cancer for over a year.  Over at his first blog, he has posted his most recent health update:I liken myself to an old car in winter that’s . . . . Continue Reading »

This essay by Carl Trueman is travelling like wildfire around the Christian blogging community, and with good reason.  It’s a scathing critique of the profligate self-promotion that goes on in the Christian blogging community:Let’s stop there a minute. This is madness. Is this where . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been buried this week in thoughts about John Calvin’s theory of natural law, some of which you can find over at Mere Orthodoxy.  Along the way, I came upon this excerpt by David Little, who does a fantastic job of encapsulating the implications of Calvin’s doctrine of natural . . . . Continue Reading »

If nothing is sacred, nothing can be profaned.This line has been haunting me for a few months.  The video of the fellow tweeting during his wedding brought it back to mind.As one commenter on put it in response to the video, “It seems to me the issue–an all-too common one these . . . . Continue Reading »

Question:  What, if anything, is wrong with this video?  I attempted to articulate one answer over at Mere-Orthodoxy.  I highly commend Rhett Smith’s analysis as well, as Rhett is a therapist who is very sensitive to these issues.  I love thinking about marriage because it . . . . Continue Reading »

I am happy to see Kevin’s excellent post and essay on the doctrine of justification. And I am not surprised to see him come to the conclusion that our failure to articulate it is at the core of our impotence. Bruce McCormack started from the same point in his brilliant essay on the role of . . . . Continue Reading »

As Christians, we are a people who live in a present that is shaped definitively by the past and the future. The meaning of our present, of our contemporary lives and relationships, is fixed, but not yet revealed. We take shape only in relationship to the eternal, which Boethius famously defined as . . . . Continue Reading »