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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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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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Martin Luther on the Passions of Evangelical Politics - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Evangelical politics are often moved by passion. Yet evangelicals should consider Martin Luther's advice on political engagement.

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Silence and the Passion: On CNN, Louie Giglio, and Me

Louie Giglio had a controversy about a sermon on homosexuality. Evangelical public figures should consider his silence as a way of following Jesus.

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Screwtape's Warning about Polemics and Evangelical Associations

Evangelical polemics need help. Screwtape has a warning, though, about what sort of associations evangelicals should seek and how our polemics should go.

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Epiphany, Obscurity, and New Year's Resolutions - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Epiphany is a season of commemorating a light that shines in the darkness. Epiphany also gives meaning to those who dwell in darkness.

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Law and Les Miserables, Revisited

Les Miserables is about law. And grace. Readers often put law and grace against each other, but Les Miserables keeps them together.

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What's Wrong with the Hobbits? Jackson's Malformed Moral Universe - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The moral visions of J.R.R. Tolkien and Peter Jackson are very different. The Lord of the Rings books have a more stark moral universe.

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The Mere Orthodoxy Year in Review

The highlights of what we wrote in 2012.

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When Your Publisher stops Publishing Your Book: Earthen Vessels *Really* Cheap

Earthen Vessels is going out of print. This is your last chance to get a paper copy.

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Sex without Qualifications: Christianity and the Meaning of Sex - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Christianity offers us sex without qualifications, rather than "meaningful sex" that some people attempt to construct.

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Altared: A Book on Marriage that Everyone Should Read

Altared: A Book on Marriage that Everyone Should Read

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A Defense of "Biblical" Against Interpretative Nihilism.

Biblical nihilism is a genuine possibility. However, Christians interested in preserving the prophetic mode should also preserve "biblical."

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On Thanksgiving and the Act of Gratitude

Thanksgiving is a time for gratitude. But where does gratitude come from? And this Thanksgiving is such gratitude a meaningful possibility?