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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.

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitical Theology

Christianity in Crisis: The Resurrection and Andrew Sullivan

The response to Andrew Sullivan's cover story on the crisis of Christianity has surprised me, if only because his appeal seems to go no deeper than rehashing the

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

The Ongoing Relevance of Social Conservatism

Every four years, pundits praise the death and irrelevance of social conservatism only to be surprised when a politician that identifies with the movement becomes nationally relevant, even if he

Matthew Lee AndersonAnthropology

The Limitations of Neuroscience

Roger Scruton warns that the neurosciences are creeping into other disciplines: In 1986 Patricia Churchland published Neurophilosophy, arguing that the questions that had been discussed to no effect by philosophers over many centuries would be solved once they were rephrased as […]

Matthew Lee AndersonEthics

Eggsploitation: Giving Voice to the Women hurt by the Fertility Industry

[youtube qcYWxVdqR8Y 640x360] Few issues are more sensitive than those surrounding infertility and our attempts to overcome it. Because infertility is so rarely talked about (or talked about badly), it&

Matthew Lee AndersonAnthropology

Love is Still Orienting: Andrew Marin on DVD

My friend Andrew Marin of Love is an Orientation fame has turned the book into a DVD curriculum for small groups, which is the publishing industry's stamp of

Matthew Lee AndersonEthics

Starbucks, Boycotts, and (Not) Buying Coffee: The Need for Theological Ethics

[youtube UnNphL-fHoM 640x480] Maggie Gallagher and the folks at the National Organization for Marriage are taking on Starbucks for their position on gay marriage, a position that they outline

Matthew Lee AndersonSociety

David Brooks defends Depravity

Not its practical implementation, mind you, but only its place in an intellectual scheme: This worldview held that people are a problem to themselves. The inner world is a battlefield

Matthew Lee AndersonPro-Life

Christian Progressivism and a Principled Pro-Life Position

My good friend Tim King of Sojourners took the Rachel Held Evans stage after I did--an admittedly easy act to follow--as a Christian progressive.  His answers are precisely

Matthew Lee AndersonCollege and University

Evangelical Universities and the Lingering Legacy of Fundamentalism?

Christopher Benson is a writer and educator living in Denver, Colorado.  He writes regularly at Bensonian, and submitted the following as a guest post.  Thomas Albert Howard, who is the

Matthew Lee AndersonEconomics and Business

The Places Markets Shouldn't Go

Michael Sandel on the moral limits of markets: These examples illustrate a broader point: some of the good things in life are degraded if turned into commodities. So to decide

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitical Theology

More than Hearts and Minds: A Critique of Political Anti-nomianism

What's our doctrine of creation to do with culture, and culture to do with legislation?  That's the puzzle I tried to work out over at The

Matthew Lee Anderson

A Brief Kony Reading List

I’ve been keeping one eye on articles on Joseph Kony and the 2012 brouhaha, so I thought I’d pull them all into one post with excerpts.  I’ve read more than this, and there are plenty of others out there.  But […]