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Matthew Lee Anderson

Matthew Lee Anderson is an Associate Professor of Ethics and Theology in Baylor University's Honors College. He has a D.Phil. in Christian Ethics from Oxford University, and is a Perpetual Member of Biola University's Torrey Honors College. In 2005, he founded Mere Orthodoxy.

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By Matthew Lee Anderson

Law and Les Miserables, Revisited

January 8th, 2013|5 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

What’s Wrong with the Hobbits? Jackson’s Malformed Moral Universe

January 7th, 2013|4 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

The Mere Orthodoxy Year in Review

January 1st, 2013|9 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

When Your Publisher stops Publishing Your Book: Earthen Vessels *Really* Cheap

December 10th, 2012|2 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

Sex without Qualifications: Christianity and the Meaning of Sex

November 29th, 2012|2 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

Altared: A Book on Marriage that Everyone Should Read

November 27th, 2012|3 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

A Defense of "Biblical" Against Interpretative Nihilism.

November 26th, 2012|5 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

On Thanksgiving and the Act of Gratitude

November 21st, 2012|3 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

Stability and “Creative Destruction” in the Home and Economy

November 20th, 2012|3 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

Intellectual Empathy and Overcoming Disagreement

November 19th, 2012|5 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

The End of our Exploring: Announcing Matt’s new book on Questioning

November 16th, 2012|7 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

The Election Disaster? Social Conservatives and Hope

November 12th, 2012|5 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

Persuasion and Political Disagreement: Behaving After the Election

November 8th, 2012|2 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

The Meaning of the 2012 Election

November 7th, 2012|6 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

Controversy and Interpretation: A Review of *Biblical Womanhood*

November 5th, 2012|12 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

How Liberal are Young Evangelicals: A Dialogue with Ben Domenech

October 30th, 2012|8 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

The Existence of the Liberal Young Evangelical

October 29th, 2012|3 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

What's at stake if Jesus had a wife?

October 15th, 2012|2 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

Ross Douthat, Heretics, and Mere Orthodoxy

October 12th, 2012|1 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

How to Reduce Abortions: An Idiosyncratic Suggestion

October 8th, 2012|2 min read