Contributors

Matthew Lee Anderson
Matthew Anderson is a writer, public speaker, educator, and editor. He is the author of Earthen Vessels:  Breathing New Life into a
Broken Faith (forthcoming from Bethany House) and  is a contributor to The New Media Frontier: Blogging, Vlogging, and Podcasting for Christ.  He sits on the editorial board of The City.can also be found at First Thoughts and ConversantLife.com.   He has been quoted onFoxNews.com and by the Associated Press.  As an editor, he has edited numerous non-fiction books, including a NY Times bestseller.   As a graduate of the Torrey Honors Institute and Biola University (2004), Matthew has wide ranging intellectual pursuits. They include, but are not limited to, the Christian life (particularly justification and sanctification), Pauline theology, political theology, the history of theology and philosophy, romance, hermeneutics, the role of the body in human experience, Shakespeare and Dante.

To contact Matthew directly, email him at matthew.l.anderson at gmail.com.

Tex

Tex has been part of the Mere Orthodoxy team since 2004, blogging on and off since then on a variety of subjects–ranging from Christian epistemology and just war theory to the importance of the semi-colon.

A graduate from Biola University’s Torrey Honors Institute and an officer and therefore, by congressional proclamation, a gentleman in the United State Air Force, he draws on his background in philosophy and the humanities, his education in the classical stlye, and his world travels as an air mobility asset to address issues within and without the military, American culture, and Christendom–as construed as broadly as possible by a dedicated evangelical Christian.

Tex writes with the express purpose of giving old ideas a new lease on life (the good ones, anyways), of promoting real thought in a society that is overloaded by soundbytes and information, and, less altruistically, to help himself think through the issues that are of existential import to himself.

If anything he says is of interest to you, if you’d like to hire his writing skills for a specific purpose, of if you feel like taking a guess at what his real name is, contact him at lemontex at yahoo.com.

Jeremy Mann

Jeremy Mann teaches math to students with special needs at a middle school in Los Angeles through the Teach For America program. In 2008 he graduated from Biola University with a degree in philosophy. Jeremy has presented or published on the history of philosophy, ethics, G.K. Chesterton, and globalization. He likes to read, trek, and homemake in Echo Park with his wife, a nurse at UCLA Medical Center. He also hopes to one day be the president of a Christian college. Email him at Jeremyrmann at gmail dot com

Cate MacDonald

Cate MacDonald is a want-to-be writer who is deeply interested in sanctification, incarnational living, vocation, the theology of the family, hospitality (both emotional and physical), the spirit of adoption, and educational theory.  She graduated from Biola University and the Torrey Honors Institute in 2006 with a degree in English Literature and from Talbot Theological Seminary in 2010 with an M.A. in Spiritual Formation and Soul Care. She now narrowly avoids destitution as a spiritual director, editor, teacher and administrative assistant. In her free time she rides her horses, spends time with her friends, cooks, gardens, and reads in the hope of someday having something worthwhile to say. You can reach her at CateJMacDonald at gmail dot com.

Andrew Walker

Andrew Walker insists that the only redeeming quality about him is the gospel, which overcame a hardened, enemy heart and brought light to darkness (2 Cor 4.4-6; Col 1.13; Rom 5.8-10).

Besides his best attempts at humility, he’s near completion of his M.Div. from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Married to Christian, they are expecting their first daughter, Caroline, in December. He’s a conservative gadfly concerned with engaging the contemporary Zeitgeist with amiable, yet combative gusto and currently works as a public policy analyst for the Family Foundation, a faith-based public policy organization in Kentucky.

He cherishes The Permanent Things and insists that theology is profoundly essential in our Christian reflection upon political theory, government, ethics, economics, and culture. All this is aimed at advancing a chastened & prudent approach to evangelical engagement in-step with Karl Barth who once stated that Christians are to engage the world “confidently, yet cautiously.”

In his free-time, he enjoys running, coffee, book collecting, movies with his wife, St. Louis Cardinal’s baseball, so-called “conversational punditry” with good friends, and inventing ever-more clever attempts at waxing and polishing his online ego, present biography included.

Contact: Twitter.com/Walker_Andrew, Facebook.com/AndrewTWalker or Andrew [at] Kentucky Family dot org

Keith is an educator, public speaker, and writer of various stripes.
On Mere-O, he is the sole remaining member of the inaugural crew under Matt Anderson’s fearless leadership…  But, sadly, Keith too has now receded to merely a “part-time” writer.

A fellow graduate with Matt of the Torrey Honors Institute, he is earning a Master’s in Orthodox Theology at St. Stephen’s Course of studies, and plans to pursue a doctorate in Platonic and neo-Platonic philosophy.

He has written successful posts on Objective Beauty, Looking at the Past to See the Future, several movie reviews, and a creative non-fiction autobiography of his lung collapsing.

Keith is currently a full-time high school teacher at Torrey Academy, a classical school funded by Biola University.

He has spoken to Wheatstone Academy and Torrey Academy and Biola University on such topics as “The Conversation of Art: how to converse with paintings, sculpture, and film”; “Why Classical Education? A historical and practical perspective”; “Theology: The Science of God? ” and published articles within this community on “Democratic Christianity: three errors to avoid”; “On Charles Williams’ Obscure Style” and more.

Contact him at      keithedbuhler@gmail.com

Retired Members of Mere-O

Andrew Selby (04-07)

Elliot Ravenwood (04-07)