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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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Harvard is rethinking their core curriculum for undergraduates. From the article: On Wednesday, the university released a new plan for undergraduate education that would designate certain subjects as ones that
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This interview with Giles Slade, author of the soon to be released Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescene in America, is a worthwhile read. Slade criticizes a consumer culture that values disposability rather than durability. His arguments are that disposable […]
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I, like my brother, wouldn't bet on these picks. That said, I'll take on the experts and offer my own prognostications regardless. And unlike Jayson Stark,
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Sitting at a decent sized intersection in suburban Los Angeles, I watch an ambulance try to get through to, presumably, take someone to the hospital in order to save his
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I Corinthians 3:18-19 “If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. For the wisdom
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The discussion on the rationality of a transcendent being continues unabated over at PseudoPolymath. Mark and Jim continue to wrangle over whether it is possible or necessary to determine whether
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My brother decided to take on the Pope’s recent speech by arguing–if it can be called that–that Christianity suffers (or almost suffers?) from the irrationality of Islam. Unfortunately, the ironies my brother points out seem grounded misunderstandings of the nature […]
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I missed this two days ago, but Saints Behaving Badly, a fun and engaging introduction to some of Christianity's more...interesting saints is now available on Amazon. I
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We at Wheatstone are retreating the next few days, so blogging will be light. In the interim, Keith Plummer at The Christian Mind, has articulated the question for “The West”: “Who is being most consistent with the inconsistent deity of […]
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The Pope's recent essay apparently didn't fit very well into a soundbyte. The outcry prompted an apology, leading to this fitting headline: Pope Sorry for Reaction
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A recent discussion here at Mere-O ended with questions about the essence of evangelicalism. Enter Dr. Fred Sanders, theologian extraordinaire, who offers this dandy of a post on “Emphatic Evangelicalism.” Dr. Sanders was a professor and remains a hero, so […]
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This story seems particularly ironic in light of the Pope's speech in Germany yesterday. While the numbers are tendentious, popular perception in America is that we are recruiting
