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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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Thoughts about GBC

I just finished a huge round-up of posts from GBC attendees. It is, I believe, the most comprehensive list of GBC attendees comments available. First, Hugh Hewitt is the most gracious, engaging, and humble man I have ever met. He […]

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Pre-empting the Critics

Joe Carter is at it again. Though he claims he's not going to post a while on the topic of naturalism, we all know he'll be

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Out of the Chaos

As an avid reader of ESPN.com, I was interested to read this article on former University of Florida quarterback Danny Wuerffel's intent to rebuild the Desire Street

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Skeptic's Circle

Jim has been hard at work putting together this week’s Skeptic Circle. While not normally a reader, I was led to it by my habitual reading of his blog. The presentation is ingenious–we’ve come to expect from that from Jim. […]

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A Question

What exactly is a “right”?

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Tolkien Again

No, I’m not going to resurrect the Bombadil discussion (see also here and here and here). The newsletter that I published it for has a new website, with all the essays. It’s a great looking site, and what’s more, available […]

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Katrina Timeline

In one of the most helpful posts since Katrina, Rick Moran has created a timeline of the responses to Katrina. Drawing mainly from the Times-Picayune website, Moran's

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Jesus' Meaning

Mere-O friend Rick Radcliffe recently wrote one of the most thorough and detailed explications and critiques of Marcus Borg's Christology (as elucidated in The Meaning of Jesus

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WorldMag Expose

Tim Bayly of the WorldMag extention zeitgeist was simply giving a taste of things to come when he denounced Wheaton earlier this week. In the latest World, Gene Edward Veith has published the first of a three-part examination of Christian […]

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Discovering Biblical Equality

Like so many trips into the library, my recent excursion had me leaving with books I did not intend to find. In this case, I stumbled upon Gordon Fee’s Listening to the Spirit in the Text (review below). My real […]

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Revamped WorldMagBlog

Joe Carter of evangelicaloutpost has added a number of "sideblogs" to World's main blog. Included is zeitgeist, a blog that seems to simply be smart people

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Reflections on my Past

Our wedding readings and homily pointed toward the future. The wedding celebration, however, was largely concerned with the past. Friends and family alike spent their time marvelling that I, who was such a precocious and irritating little child, actually grew […]