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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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Christ in the Mud Pies: Interacting with Gospel Wakefulness (Pt. 2)

Read part one here.  And settle in:  this gets a little long.  Let’s recap a bit before we get into things:  Jared Wilson wrote a book that lots of

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

Christ in the Mud Pies: Interacting with Gospel Wakefulness (Pt. 1)

Jared Wilson’s book Gospel Wakefulness invaded a number of people’s top 10 lists for 2011, and for good reason:  it’s an excellently written, persuasive exploration of the

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Death's Double Aspect: The Earthen Vessels Symposium (Ch. 9)

There’s no time for niceties here:  Ben Simpson has a critique to offer, and it’s a solid one: Is death an enemy, an evidence of a horrendous evil

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An Interview of Massive Proportions: Grounded with Ryan Dobson

Well, here’s something. Ryan Dobson has all the radio instincts of his mildly famous father, and his co-host Toben is a crack up.   The combination made for a lively, rollicking conversation that opened with me reducing Montana to F-150 […]

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Every Body Matters: A Discussion with Gary Thomas

Gary Thomas is best well known for his book on marriage, which is still one of the standard bearers on the subject (see our review of it, and Thomas'

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Christian Ethics and Gay Desires: The Earthen Vessels Symposium (Ch. 8)

On page 28 of Earthen Vessels I quoted Oliver O'Donovan's standard for theological ethics:  "The Church can be committed to ethics without moderating the tone

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Predictions for New Evangelicals in the New Year

I've stayed abreast of stories on the "young evangelicals," but haven't written about us recently because there's not much new to say.

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New Year's Resolutions as Echoes of Grace

I thought I'd add my own literary contribution to our reflections on New Year's resolutions.  Where Cate drops Harry Potter, I bring some George MacDonald.  Read

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Wearing Social Justice on our Sleeves

Just in time for Christmas, I thought I would finally excerpt this piece that I wrote earlier this year for the good folks at Boundless: Yet at the same time,

Matthew Lee AndersonLiterature

Adults in the Body of Children: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and Midsummer Night's Dream

Alan Jacobs passed along this fascinating little bit on Lewis's story: My real criticism of this novel relates to a different matter. It is that it ends just

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The Commoditization of Mere-O: The Annual Reader's Survey

In many ways, 2011 has been one of the most exciting years Mere-O has had in the course of our seven year history.  I'll never be a

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The King Jesus Gospel: A Review

I've been almost completely offline the past couple weeks, so I'm behind on everything.  But I just noticed that Leadership Journal published my review of Scot