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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 AndersonSocial Justice

Kony 2012 and the Ignorance of Critics: A Guest Post

Jake Meador's critique of Invisible Children's video prompted quite a bit of discussion, much of which was rather passionately pursued.   Dan Parris wrote the below, and

Matthew Lee AndersonFilm Reviews/Hollywood

Don't Waste your Blackjack: Holy Rollers and Christian Gamblers

[vimeo 32338361 600 338] What Ben Mezrich did for card counters in Bringing down the House, Bryan Storkel aims to do for The Church Team, a now defunct group of

Matthew Lee AndersonSocial Justice

American Power and Millenial Social Activism

My friend Dan Parris makes an astute point about the nature of activism: If you watch [Invisible Children's] past films (or spend significant time in that part of

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

Conscience and Conservatives: What role should it play in public debate?

We’ve all been whipped into a frenzy over Rush Limbaugh’s idiotic insults of a Georgetown law student, a controversy I have been fastidiously trying to ignore.  Errors often compound faster than interest, and responding to one outlandish statement with apoplexy […]

Matthew Lee AndersonEconomics and Business

Poverty, the Limits of Materialism, and George MacDonald

Christianity Today recently put together a peculiarly insufficient list of ways to help the poor that was ably and summarily criticized by Peter Greer, whose work with Hope International stands somewhere in the nexus of awesome and jaw-dropping. But they […]

Matthew Lee AndersonEconomics and Business

The (A)Morality of Material Resources

Following up on yesterday's musings about the proper distribution of material resources, I thought I'd walk through a bit more O'Donovan for us all.

Matthew Lee AndersonEconomics and Business

A few thoughts on Wealth Inequality

What sort of problem is wealth inequality, if it is a problem at all? That's the question that's been ably posed to me by a commenter,

Matthew Lee AndersonCollege and University

Upon the Occasion of John Mark Reynolds Moving to Houston Baptist

My friend John Mark Reynolds just announced this evening that he is leaving his position as Director to become the new provost at Houston Baptist University.* In the common parlance,

Matthew Lee AndersonEvangelicalism

The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right

There are few books that I wish every evangelical under the age of forty would read:  Jon Shields’ The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right is one of them. Shields’

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

Lent and the Joys of Self-Control

Interesting thoughts from my friend Mark Galli on the role and meaning of Lent, much of which overlap with worries I've articulated elsewhere about our sanctification being reduced

Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsPolitical Theory

The Rachel Held Evans Conversation: Why I am a Conservative

Rachel Held Evans' readers ask all kinds of hard questions.  As in really hard questions. There's are thoughts on several topics there that may be unfamiliar to

Matthew Lee AndersonCurrent Politics

Accommodation, Contraception, and Religious Freedom

Let's pick up where we left off last week, shall we? On Friday, President Obama addressed the nation and announced a compromise on the question of mandatory contraception.