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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.
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitical Theology
David French has posted an "open letter" to post-partisan evangelicals that's bound to get a lot of attention because, well, that's what "
Matthew Lee AndersonEvangelicalism
Andy Crouch cautions against generational analysis: Now America is suffused with generational consciousness, even though “generation” as usually defined is a hopelessly blunt instrument. Whole generations (defined as people sharing
Matthew Lee AndersonBooks
I don’t think anxiety is a peculiarly modern phenomenon, but I suspect that it has become particularly pronounced for many people in recent years. The expanding economy has opened
Matthew Lee Anderson
My piece at Relevant on tattoos (yes, another) came out last week and commenters, well, let’s just say they didn’t quite get it. The general sentiment was something along the lines of “Who cares?,” a response I would rebuke if […]
Matthew Lee AndersonWeekend Reading
Over the past six weeks or so, we've been populating our Facebook page with links to other articles and things of interest on the internet. It's
Matthew Lee AndersonEvangelicalism
David Sessions does yeoman’s work trying to disambiguate “culture wars” as a term: I think most of us loosely think of culture warring as a special class of ressentiment, combat driven by a mentality of besiegement, symbolic struggle, and supposed existential […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEvangelicalism
Jamie Smith, reflecting about the claims that millennial Christians are leaving the church because of her views on politics, evolution, and the rest of the standard litany of grievances: And what exactly are we supposed to do with these claims? […]
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitical Theology
Rachel Held Evans struck a chord with her breathless reminder that when it comes to the culture wars, young evangelicals are just so over that. There's a lot
Matthew Lee Anderson
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Chris Marlink, Social Media Director for the Family Research Council. Remember the media prattle about a conservative “war on women?” It would seem that meme has come to an abrupt end thanks […]
Matthew Lee AndersonCurrent Politics
Editor's note: Ryan is a good friend of mine and a fellow Oliver O'Donovan aficionado. He was kind enough to take on the now infamous "
Matthew Lee AndersonMarriage
Mark Bauerlein has some penetrating thoughts about how individualism has corroded the novel: A good plot needs conflict, an unsettled situation whose outcome we care about. For more than two
Matthew Lee AndersonPhilosophy
Notre Dame's Center for the Philosophy of Religion has just announced a unique opportunity for an academic community: they are offering 10 $3000 prizes to people who publish
