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

Character and the Theologian - Issue #275

#275 Feb 24, 2021

1 Corinthians 14:13-25 - Issue #274

#274 Feb 22, 2021

Procreation and Necessity (with Augustine) - Issue #273

#273 Feb 19, 2021

#272

Feb 17, 2021

Honoring the Body - Issue #272 – TLDR: We should think about our bodies through the lens of honor. This was prompted by an email from
#271

Feb 15, 2021

1 Corinthians 14:1-12 - Issue #271 – 1 Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. 2 For one
#270

Feb 12, 2021

Marriage Among the Reactionaries - Issue #270 – I have been thinking of late about the way in which communities can affirm the same moral judgments a
#269

Feb 10, 2021

Desire and Necessity - Issue #269 – In what I take to be the pivotal moment of Plato’s Symposium, Socrates interrogates Agathon (whose na
#268

Feb 8, 2021

1 Corinthians 13:8-13 - Issue #268 – MLA: Apologies for only sending two issues last week. I was trapped inside 18 hours of Zooming over t
#267

Feb 4, 2021

Responses: On Angels, Intentions, & Vaccines - Issue #267 – MLA: It's been a while since I have answered the mail. So, here you are.
#266

Feb 1, 2021

1 Corinthians 13:1-8 - Issue #266 – 1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging
#265

Jan 29, 2021

Intentions and Desires - Issue #265 – TLDR: Intentions express the person in a way desires cannot. “Recently I’ve more or less stopped part
#264

Jan 27, 2021

The Wounds of Grief and the Growth of Love - Issue #264 – MLA: Thursday is the third anniversary of my sister-in-law's death. As I have done the previous two y
#263

Jan 25, 2021

1 Corinthians 12:27-31 - Issue #263 – 27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. 28 And God has appointed in the chu
#262

Jan 22, 2021

The Value of Intentions - Issue #262 – “We see the works. Mercy feeds; pride also feeds. Mercy welcomes the stranger; pride also welcomes th
#261

Jan 20, 2021

Ambition and Growth in Charity - Issue #261 – MLA: It's been some time since I have taken up a practical question and dispensed 'advice' (which for
#260

Jan 18, 2021

1 Corinthians 12:12-26 - Issue #260 – 12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, ar
#259

Jan 15, 2021

Angels and Christian Ethics - Issue #259 – What do the angels have to do with Christian ethics? That is not a question I have much contemplated,
#258

Jan 13, 2021

Christian Mediocrity - Issue #258 – It might seem odd given what I have written in recent months about ambition, but I have long wanted t
#257

Jan 12, 2021

1 Corinthians 12:1-11 - Issue #257 – 1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. 2 You know that when
#256

Jan 8, 2021

Suspicion and Innocence - Issue #256 – The demands of charity are so extensive that they include our thoughts. It is a remarkable feature of

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