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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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Ted Haggard: Bad Fruit Out of a Bad Tree

“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. 34 You brood of

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Reflections on Christian Celebrity-ism and Ted Haggard

Readers of Mere-O almost assuredly know the story by now. It is far too common and predictable, and the details do not need repeating here. Most readers, after all, do not read Mere-O for stories, but for comments. Which generally […]

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Taking the Bait, or Why Going to Sleep is a Good Idea: Updated

Lesson: taunting other bloggers who are (a) more creative, (b) have a far-reaching audience, and (c) have read more philosophy than I've forgotten is never a good

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ETS Blogger Meet Up?

So, it’s official. I am headed to the Evangelical Theological Society general meeting in Washington D.C. to shop a couple book proposals. It is my first time, so I am just a bit excited about going. It will be the […]

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Movie Review: The Departed

In the midst of work and writing I took some time off to see The Departed last week.  Star-studded line-up, great screenwriting, and Scorcese behind the wheel combined

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Sweet Fellowship: 2006 GodBlogCon

"Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run

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An Exercise in Brilliance

My picks for the baseball postseason. I had: Tigers. Reality: Cardinals. Yup--that's full postseason where I only picked one series correctly. Anyone can blog. That sort of

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GodBlogCon Day 2 Wrap-Up

Ahhhhhhhhhh...............the memories. It's 1:42 AM, I'm exhausted, my wife is in bed, and I am playing the massochist and typing up my thoughts before

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Incarnational Blogging: Smart Guys on Being Christians in the Blogosphere

Right now, the smart guys (picture at ThinkChristian) are talking about this quote by Linc Ashby of Common Grounds: Is there any plausibility to the possibility that we are so

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GodBlogCon Day 1

Welcome to GodBlogCon! I am going to be "live"-blogging as much of the conference as possible (I typed this earlier and then got in a heated conversation

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Wise Advice from James Kushiner

James Kushiner of Mere Comments, a man who hasn’t done much in the way of wrong on his blog, said the worst thing that he has done is not include enough qualifiers in his posts. Not bad advice, but hard […]

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"What's the Mind Got to Do with It?": Love, Reason, and Emotion in Jonathan Edwards

Holy affections are not heat without light; but evermore arise from some information of the understanding, or some spiritual instruction that the mind receives, some light or actual knowledge. From