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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.

By Matthew Lee Anderson

The Undead Religious Right: Why I Cannot Support Ted Cruz

January 12th, 2016|22 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

A Resignation Letter

July 22nd, 2015|9 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

The Distortions of Progressive Christians: How Religious Liberty is in Danger

July 20th, 2015|23 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

Anthony Kennedy was *Almost* Right: Post-Obergefell Thoughts on Where We Go Now

July 17th, 2015|9 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

The End of Sexual Ethics: Love and the Limits of Reason

July 16th, 2015|7 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

The System Behind Abortion: Planned Parenthood’s Dehumanizing Rhetoric

July 15th, 2015|7 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

Our Culture of Reading and the End of Dialogue: An Essay

June 16th, 2015|16 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

Why I am Opposed to Gay Marriage

June 3rd, 2015|50 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

Mere Fidelity: Pentecost and the Prophetic Gift of the Spirit

May 26th, 2015|1 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

Mere Fidelity: Should Women Preach?

May 18th, 2015|1 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

Mere Fidelity: Evangelical Blind Spots with Collin Hansen

May 5th, 2015|1 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

Mere Fidelity: Free Range Parenting

April 28th, 2015|1 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

Oliver O’Donovan against Decline Narratives

April 22nd, 2015|2 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

Mere Fidelity: Beyond the Abortion Wars

April 20th, 2015|1 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

The Limits of Dialogue: Q Ideas, Gay Marriage, and Chuck Colson

April 17th, 2015|11 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

The Cost of Freedom

April 16th, 2015|3 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

Hope, Failures, and Young Evangelicals: On What I Said and Didn't

April 14th, 2015|17 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

Mere Fidelity: Christendom and the Privilege of the Church

April 13th, 2015|2 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

Naive Young Evangelicals and the Illiberal DNA of the Gay Rights Movement

April 7th, 2015|14 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

Mere Fidelity: The Resurrection and Ethics

April 6th, 2015|1 min read