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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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Fostering Conversations that Count: Questions vs. Answers

It is a theme that I have touched on in several posts now, so I thought I would put it into an installment of its own. Managing the interaction between

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Fostering Conversations that Count: The Biblical Basis for Discussion

But is it biblical? Such an issue is of probably no interest to most educators or businessmen, but to those who work in Christian ministry (or Christian education in general) it is essential. I have interacted with some more conservative […]

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Cho's Disturbing Saga (Updated).

Updated:  Removed a confusion from the last paragraph.   Also, Hugh is furious at NBC, as are these folks.  On the other side of the aisle, this bloke wants the tapes

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Google reading our Email?

Alister Cameron, who is guest blogging at Problogger, mined Google's Blogsearch patent application to determine how Blogsearch ranks posts.  It is somewhat surprising to a novice like me

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Human Exceptionalism Undermined? (Updated)

While my brother and Wesley Smith discuss this brief analysis of the importance to human exceptionalism by Leon Kass at his place, this provocatively titled piece of news has started

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The Sacrificial Death of One

Update:  Check out this account from a student of Librescu’s.  Librescu apparently had published more than any other professor in VT’s history.  His academic page is here. From among the carnage of yesterday’s shootings comes this story: Israeli professor of […]

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Fostering Conversations that Count: Only Discussion?

Sometimes when I advocate using discussion as a means of education, people hear me saying that I think they should only use discussion. I’m not. Discussion should be part of your overall educational strategy. An essential part, yes, but only […]

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The Virginia Tech Tragedy

The deadliest campus attack in American history occurred this morning in Blacksburg, Virginia. At least 22 people were killed by a gunman, before he turned the gun on himself. The

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The Path of Least Resistance: the West's Response to Iran

Want a brief understanding of the state of the relationship between Iran and the West?  Victor Davis Hanson pens this analysis: And then I woke up, remembering that the West

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Fostering Conversations that Count: Why Discussion? (Updated)

Why are we doing this? As someone who led discussions with high school students on a regular basis, I would often hear their frustrations with the discussions we would have.

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The Next Baby Step Forward

A long time ago I announced that I was writing a book.  I am still writing that book.  Over the last two years, I have learned more about patience than I’ve ever cared to, as I have taken baby steps […]

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Cheerful Solipsism

Walt Disney was doubtlessly one of the formative influences on modern American culture.  Like most young people, I grew up watching Bambi, Davy Crockett and a host of other Disney