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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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Perhaps the Most Daring Post I've Written Yet

Pastor Mark Roberts has been blogging lately about the TNIV. Everything to this point has been laying the groundwork, and yet Roberts remarks that the series has generated “more e-mail than any series [he has] ever written – and [he […]

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Reynolds on TNIV

Naturally, Dr. Reynolds offers a unique and insightful perspective: We are people of the Book. We cannot accept a post-literate culture anymore than we leave pre-literate cultures alone.

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Parable of the Talents

Okay, this story from the AP wire is just flat out cool. GROVE, Okla. (AP) — Usually, parishioners offer money to their churches. This time, the church handed out money. Pastor Steve Dyer of the Newsong Church gave $14,000 to […]

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Honest Words about Depictions of Heaven

From an interview with the screenwriters of Constantine, the latest Keanu Reeves film: Interviewer: So is that why you didn’t show Heaven more? FRANK: The true reason for that

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Constantine's Message a Mixed Bag

Keith and I just returned from seeing Constantine, courtesy of the good folks at Grace Hill Media. Constantine is certainly for mature audiences only. Replete with demons of various kinds,

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A Methodological Suggestion for Discussing the Evangelical Identity

Now that I have thought about Dr. Jackson's characterization of evangelicalism a bit more, it has occurred to me that attempting to include a "spiritual ethos"

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On the Evangelical Identity

Dr. Andrew Jackson over at smartchristian.com ran an excellent series of posts on the evangelical identity some weeks ago. They should be required reading for any evangelical bloggers hoping to jump in to the fray. A sample: What we have […]

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More Kerry

Another satirical news write up from the desk of Scott Ott (Doc Ott, anyone?): Mr. Kerry, who told NBC's Tim Russert that he's "keeping his

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Gates and China

Paul Musgrave over at In the Agora offers an interesting critique of Bill Gates's recent speech at the World Economic Forum. Gates's heralded Chinas as having

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Success

Who knows whether initial estimates of 70% will hold up, but clearly the majority of Iraqis turned out in favor of democracy. John Kerry, on Meet the Press, councils caution

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Back to Biola

Biola has published an analysis and response to the NY Times Magazine piece of a few months ago that highlighted Biola. My brother wrote then that the Times write-up

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The Quotable Karl

Barth, not Popper. There is no doctrine more dangerous than the Christian doctrine of the atonement, it does indeed make “wild and careless folk” (Heid. Cat., qu. 64), if we do not consider it with this warning in view. The […]