Bullets, Cremains, and the Concept of the Sacred

November 15th, 2011 | 2 min read

I wish the story was a joke, but it wasn’t.

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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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Bullets, Cremains, and the Concept of the Sacred

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