The Path Before Us

By Matthew Lee Anderson

I'll help you train your powers of discernment, so that you can better discern good and evil in this world.

Previous issues

Dante in 2021 - Issue #309

#309 Jun 8, 2021

1 Corinthians 16:1-11 - Issue #308

#308 Jun 7, 2021

The Devil and the Details - Issue #307

#307 Jun 5, 2021

#306

Jun 2, 2021

Triune Flesh - Issue #306 – TLDR: Reflections on flesh in light of Trinity Sunday's readings. John 3:1-16 is not exactly the text
#305

May 31, 2021

1 Corinthians 15:51-58 - Issue #305 – 51 Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment,
#304

May 28, 2021

Scandalous Authors in a Church Library - Issue #304 – This issue comes in response to a reader, who writes with the following inquiry: “I’ve fallen into th
#303

May 26, 2021

The Call of God in Creation - Issue #303 – TLDR: The creature's relationship to God is constituted by His call and our response. What is the per
#302

May 24, 2021

1 Corinthians 15:47-50- Issue #302 – 47 The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. 48 As was the man
#301

May 19, 2021

Clips and Comments - Issue #301 – MLA: My apologies for not sending an issue sooner. Over the past few weeks, I have been buried beneat
#300

May 5, 2021

Mercy in the Culture Wars - Issue #300 – MLA: This is the 300th issue of this newsletter, which is astounding to me. Thanks for all of you who
#299

May 3, 2021

1 Corinthians 15:38-46 - Issue #299 – 39 For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for
#298

Apr 28, 2021

Assorted Covid Thoughts - Issue #298 – TLDR: I explore how things at the beginning of a pandemic are different than things in the middle.It
#297

Apr 26, 2021

1 Corinthians 15:35-38 - Issue #297 – "35 But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?" 36 You fool
#296

Apr 23, 2021

Images of Embryos - Issue #296 – What sort of moral or political transformation can an image bring about? It’s a year old or so now, b
#295

Apr 21, 2021

Do Mistakes Exist? - Issue #295 – As this mini-series on mistakes and sins has provoked more excellent questions, I thought I would con
#294

Apr 16, 2021

Sins and Mistakes: What's the Difference? - Issue #294 – From a reader: “You’ve distinguished now a few different categories of moral missteps as distinct fro
#293

Apr 14, 2021

Against the Powers of Discernment - Issue #293 – TLDR: The source of the moral life remains extrinsic to us. The tendency to claim a unique level of i
#292

Apr 12, 2021

1 Corinthians 15:29-34 - Issue #292 – 29 Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised
#291

Apr 7, 2021

Sins, Mistakes, and Damage - Issue #291 – TLDR: Mistakes are not sins. But God's grace is big enough for them, too. While Shakespeare’s Midsumm
#290

Apr 2, 2021

Good Friday - Issue #290 – MLA: A meditation for Good Friday, from Karl Barth. "Jesus Christ fulfilled the will of God...With Hi

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