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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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Two interesting articles at Foreign Policy: In the first, Phillip Longman contends that those who oppose patriarchy as a system of values are actually breeding themselves out of existence, allowing
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I have been somewhat involved in an interesting discussion over at Jon Rowe’s place about the possibility of being a Christian philosopher. My involvement included this response to an essay by DSH. Jon has featured DSH’s latest comment in its […]
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So why do conservative Christians believe in inerrancy anyway? JP Moreland, philosopher par excellence, argues for it here. I think this will clear up some of the issues regarding contemporary
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God's wrath is certainly a terrible thing and sometimes in our hearts and minds as Christians it is best to stand silently in awe. There is also a
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Victory at last. Week Two: vs. The Magic Johnsons Recap: By dictating the tempo of the game, Rational Animals took advantage of a newfound outside game to put away the
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I’m going to take a stab at responding to “DSH’s” comment at Jon Rowe’s blog. Jon is an immensely bright guy, as DSH seems to be. I pick on his post because it highlights not only some of the central […]
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They all go into the dark. Whether famous and wealthy or unknown and merely comfortable, death takes all men. And death has taken two good men this week, men in extremely different circumstances but both men who I will miss. […]
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This is an amazing story about Jason McElwain, an autistic high schooler who was manager for the basketball team for a few years and was put in to the last game of the season. The result: six 3-pointers, 20 points […]
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I wish I had thought of this. Leithart's thoughts on the similarity between the Gospel of John and Homer's Odyssey are, if nothing else, provocative: And
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Update: the rather humorous spelling error is fixed. Thanks, Jim! Today is Ash Wednesday, one of my favorite days in the church calendar. When I turned twenty-four this January,
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Carnage. More carnage. Week One: vs. Street Ballers Recap: It was close for 32 minutes, then they pulled away. We had a number of turnovers and didn’t get back on defense, allowing a few easy baskets. I was, of course, […]
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Also worth your time is this article on Princeton academic and natural law theorist Robert George. I'm somewhat influenced by George--I found his Natural Law an able
