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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 AndersonEarthen Vessels
Life circumstances have put me behind on responding, but haven’t kept Zac Hicks from interacting with my final chapter (life circumstances have also precluded the person who volunteered for chapter 10 from responding to it, so there you have it). […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
Ben Simpson, bringing the heat against my chapter on death: Is death an enemy, an evidence of a horrendous evil still operative in our world? Has death been defeated, or does it wait for a final defeat? Resurrection awaits us, […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
Jake Meador, writing about my take on sexuality, wants me to expand my thoughts on the "apologetic undercurrent" of evangelical teachings about sexuality: Sadly, evangelicals are often unwilling
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
Timothy Dalrymple added some insights into the reasons beneath various types of tattoos. I have to underscore that the whole list is worth reading, but the last one is especially
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
Brian Hedges reflecting on my chapter on homosexuality, a chapter that I'm honestly surprised hasn't gotten more attention: Reading this chapter reminded me of John Stott’
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
I wish the story was a joke, but it wasn’t. A few weeks back, not long after Steve Jobs died, a story went around about a company named, of all things, Holy Smokes will take the cremains of your loved […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
Jason Hood wants to extend the conversation into two directions: First, if we tat, we should probably do it with excellence. In fact, I’d love to see Christian tattoo
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
A must read: Second, in the discussion of pornography Anderson hints at another underlying problem with our understanding of sexuality: the context in which we discuss it. We live in
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
Jason Hood's work is some of the best out there, in my opinion. And he decided to offer his contribution on tattoos with, well, flair. Up to this
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
Conor Friedersdorf responds to Ross Douthat’s latest column: Douthat concludes his column by writing that “we need intelligent leaders with a sense of their own limits, experienced people whose lives have taught them caution. We still need the best and […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
My friend John Dyer--go buy his book now--reflected on chapter five of Earthen Vessels, and in conclusion highlighted this section: When cleanliness and bodily order become required for
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
Rod Dreher called Ken a "national treasure," and Rod is exactly right. I have been blessed by a budding friendship with Ken, the founder and host of Mars
