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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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Papal Politicking

John Schroeder likes the Pope because of this article. I'll raise John this speech, wherein Pope Benedict explores the relationship between faith, reason, and the "dialogues of

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Meaning and Intention

My brother's recent puzzle spawned this response and subsequent discussion. The discussion continued that weekend for me--I spent a three hour car ride working through the issues

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Knowing the Holy

Tim Challies, one of the Christian blogosphere’s elite, has been reading A.W. Tozer’s Knowledge of the Holy, one of the best concise handbooks on the doctrine of God in existence. My first introduction to Tozer came as an ignorant but […]

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Reason #2675 Why YouTube Rules

Old Whose Line is it Anyway? clips. I've been describing this clip (badly) anytime the show came up since I saw it several years ago. Now, it'

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Reminder

Don't forget about GodBlogCon, October 26-28! It's going to be wicked awesome.

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A Trio of Evening Links

With school starting up again, there’s a new threat to teachers and professors: YouTube. Those pesky cell phones will once again incriminate the crazy, the boring, and the downright bad professors. Like ratemyprofessors.com, the truth will eventually win out–professors who […]

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The Necessity of Inquiry into the Christian Faith in the Proper Spirit

A commenter on Mere-O pointed out that the intellectual Jews skeptically asked Jesus “who is my neighbor?” to get out of the problem of dealing with what they already knew to be true about the Gospel. This came in response […]

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Chesterton Quote Finder

This is a really, really cool and generous service. Hopefully with they won’t be inundated with requests. I’ve already put mine in. (HT: The American Chesterton Society Blog)

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Saints Behaving Badly: A Book Review

The Christian Church is often accused of glossing over its own sins while condemning those of others, especially the Catholic Church, as it has a long history of sins to

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Is the Christian Faith Simple?

Yes and No, states Dr. Fred Sanders on Middlebrow. Once theologians (scholarly or layman) get going on the questions of the atonement, incarnation, or the Trinity, the discussion gets deeply

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Why Are We So Busy? (Suspicions of Big Business III)

Lately, I’ve blogged about big business and some potential problems including the way people misplace their desire for fulfillment into corporate success and the cultural problems caused by large organizations. Now, I want to focus on the overwhelming busyness of […]

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Do we think in language?

The linguistic turn taken by most 20th century philosophers included a tendency to assume that when we think, we think solely in language. When reading Dallas Willard's mind-