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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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“The codes is more what you’d call……guidelines.” Or so says the inimitable Captain Barbossa of Pirates of the Caribbean. When it comes to the rules of leading discussions, it’s an important truth to keep in mind: the excellent discussion leader […]
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W. Bradford Wilcox, the author of the widely praised Soft Patriarchs, New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands, sat down with Kathryn Lopez of NRO to talk fatherhood in
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One of the most difficult problems in any given discussion is identifying what “the right thing to do” is. The question is extraordinarily difficult because so much of the answer
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I have sometimes argued that on the whole, college is bad for Christian youth. A recent study has been released that disconfirms that theory: students who don't go
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With graduation season in full swing, it’s time to dispense all our “nuggets of wisdom” on the newest members of adult society–the high school graduate. I’m certainly young (25) to be handing out advice, but age has never stopped me […]
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While taking down Good to Great for its sloppy description of the purported "Dark Ages," the Bourgeois Burglar writes: Leaving the abuse of the Dark Ages, a comment
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That’s the question Steven Landsberg asks over at Slate. His answer: Accounting for all that, it turns out that the immigrant’s $7 gain is worth about five times the American’s $3 loss. In other words, to justify keeping the immigrant […]
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See Parts One, Two, Three and Four here. Many thanks to Richard Radcliffe for submitting the thought provoking essay. IV. CONCLUSION In sum, this essay has posited the thesis that
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See Part One, Two and Three of this excellent series by Richard Radcliffe. C. Luther’s Ardent Views Against Jews Were Not Localized To The Final, Infirm Years Of His Life, And Cannot Be Excused By Advanced Age Or His Illnesses. […]
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A variety of choice thoughts from my internet reading the past two weeks: From Peggy Noonan's scathing article about the Bush Adminstration's treatment of Conservatives: Now
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See Part One and Part Two of this series. B. Luther’s Views Are Not Based on Personal, Emotional Outbursts, But On Longstanding Reflected Exegesis of Scriptures—A Hallmark of
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III. ARGUMENT A. Luther’s Attacks Were Personalized and Separate from Acts. As previewed [below], the historical evidence shows that Luther’s anti-Semitism cannot be excused for several reasons. First, Luther’s attacks were personalized and directed to the Jews’ nature, and not […]
