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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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With Andrew Murray in Christ's School of Prayer

I recently began to read Andrew Murray's spiritual classic, With Christ in the School of Prayer. The missionary to Africa bids his fellow disciples in Christ to beg

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Chatting with Ramesh: Notes from a Blogger's Conference Call with Ramesh Ponnoru

This last week I had the privilege of joining a blogger's conference call with Ramesh Ponnoru, a smart guy who writes over at The Corner and has written

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Deja Vu: Repeating the Midsummer Night's Dreaming

Here's the final version of the paper I sent in for my grad school application. I made a few subtle, yet important changes in my wording in order

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leriWinner_49, Leave us Alone!

Turns out this IPO has exactly the same content as Mere Orthodoxy! We've received around 100 spam posts from it the last few days. You can't

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Midsummer Night's Dreaming: An Analysis

So, the following paper has consumed my attention the last week. My grad school application is now due in 72 hours, and I am finally "finished" with my

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More About Evangelicalism

Matthew L. Anderson linked to an article by Dr. Matt Jensen of the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola a few days ago, which sparked some fruitful discussion in the comments

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Why Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey Series is so Wonderful

The folks over at Bourgeois Burglars have written a great post on Mirth in Patrick O’Brian’s series on Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin. Though it was an excellent film with one of the best soundtracks in history, it is a […]

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Essays to Live By: Smart Guys on Diverse and Sundry Topics

I spent the last hour reading a few very, very good essays and interviews. I was only intending to spend 15 minutes or so, but the more I read the

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Sayers' Farce on Why Doctrine is Important: Part I - On God the Holy Ghost

Dorothy Sayers, one of the most intelligent lay-theologians of the 20th century, a member of the famous Inklings and a first-rate mystery writer, wrote a piece called “The Dogma is the Drama” contained in the collection Letters to a Diminished […]

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Evening Links

I am busy working on a few projects right now, so I haven't had time to contribute anything of substance, but I did want to highlight a few

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Auto-psy of a Honda Accord

Apparently, it has been a bad car day for the Anderson boys. Sandwiched between a Jeep Charokee and a Toyota Tacoma, my wife’s 2004 Accord took a beating. We’re both okay (stiff necks and broken hearts excepting). My wife’s once-beautiful […]

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Office Spaces: Long-Term Losses from the Recent Election

The recent election was still the topic of choice among people in the D.C. area. Many of the young people I met were either elated or despondant at the