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Matthew Lee AndersonBible

The Anthropology of Romans Four: Prefatory Remarks

The reader must forgive me for beginning this essay on Paul’s anthropology with some personal reflections. Such a beginning is clearly not in consonance with what purports to be an academic paper. However, I feel it beneficial to contextualize this […]

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On the Ground. In Iraq

On the ground in Iraq.  When I imagined myself being a position to say those words I never quite knew just what to picture.  I knew that Iraq has a

Matthew Lee AndersonBible

The Anthropology of Romans Four: Paul as New Creation (Series Intro)

Though I have not spent much time here at Mere O blogging about Pauline theology, it has been an interest of mine for some time. I first fell in love

Keith E. BuhlerEducation

Donald - a Dialogue on Moral Actions

Dramatis Personae Donald - a lead guitarist for a successful rock band Nat - an inquisitive college student --- Have I improved? Be frank with me, Don. I might say you've

Keith E. BuhlerChurch

the need to recover tradition I

It's now old news that Francis Beckwith has returned (converted back?) to the Roman Catholic Church of his youth. His change of denomination does however provide the oppurtunity

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

Responding to Readers: Article6 on "The Romney Dilemma"

On Thursday, I highlighted what I see to be a dilemma for evangelical voters when it comes to Mitt Romney. Either we ignore his Mormonism and so deepen the divide between the sacred and secular, or we discuss it and […]

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In One In One Door and Out the Other

With only a week of down time between my return from Jordan and my trip to Turkey, I’ve only had enough time to break every rule in the book

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Three's a Crowd?

Does sanctioning homosexual marriage lead to a slippery slope or no? Elizabeth Marquardt says "Yes."   Of course, sometimes the three adults might want to live together, which leads

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Killed the Comma

Or so Robert Samuelson claims culture has done.  I could go on, but the column's only 800 words, and more evidence would simply reinforce the point: de Tocqueville&

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

The Romney Dilemma

I haven’t decided on a candidate in the 08 election yet. Unlike Joe and some of the others who have anted up for Fred!’s campaign, I am still open to a Romney led ticket. But as Joshua Trevino points out […]

Matthew Lee AndersonEducation

The Eros of Souls: Navigating the Professor-Teacher Relationship

In the recent surprise hit Little Miss Sunshine, Steve Carrel plays a homosexual Proust scholar who has fallen in love with a graduate student, only to have it end badly.

Matthew Lee AndersonEducation

From Dictate to Discussion: New Tactics in the Culture Wars

Next week, I’ll be spending time at Wheatstone Academy engaging students in discussion. We pitch the program as a “Christian worldview development” program, but that is even overstepping it–mostly, we just talk. The emergence of Wheatstone Academy, and other programs […]