I am a young man. That has never stopped me from having opinions, but I am often reminded of my youth when my opinions outstretch my years, as they do in the sad case of Ted Haggard. I would point out that though I speak in the passionate confidence appropriate my youth, I lack the mature wisdom to deal in such matters. I submit the following in the spirit of blogging: tentative, and subject to the criticisms and arguments of others.
I criticized New Life last night for raising Ted Haggard to a plane of uber-Christians. This morning, Scot McKnight more ably articulated many of the problems I saw only dimly. He identifies five problems:
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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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