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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
Joseph Sunde has a good summary of what I'm up to, after which he concludes with this: Although Anderson’s vocabulary sometimes clashes with my own (“consumerism” = commodification/
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
John Dyer’s reflections about Chapter Four are up at his blog, and he closes with this: Under the concept of freedom, Matt writes, When cleanliness and bodily order become required for entrance into our communities—as they clearly are in most […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
Joseph Sunde at the ever-excellent Remnant Culture has the goods: But there is indeed a higher order, an authority that cuts through the perverse consumerism and contorted individualism of
Matthew Lee Anderson
An excerpt from Chesterton, and one of his finer moments: Paganism may be compared to that diffused light that glows in a landscape when the sun is behind a cloud. So when the true centre of worship is for some […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
I have a recap of a recent debate between Jim Wallis and Al Mohler over at The Gospel Coalition this morning: Despite the clarity of the concerns (and the accuracy of each side’s worries), I left wondering whether the language […]
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
This is the chapter I didn't want to write. Even now, reading it, it feels like a detour. There I go, wandering through the fields of the various
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
I am honored and humbled by Nathan Gilmour’s review, which gets going in a hurry and doesn’t slow down: The preface to Matthew Anderson’s book is subtitled, “In Which I Clear my Throat.” How could I but love this book? […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
Stephanie Smith's wants evangelicals to learn from locavores: It’s true that we need to carefully discern our living patterns and what informs them, as Anderson suggests, from
Matthew Lee AndersonTheology and Practice
Editor's note: Keith Buhler, a founding writer at Mere-O, returns and unpacks the messy business of Harold Camping. In religion, as in sports, the truism holds true:
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
Stephanie Smith continues the Earthen Vessels symposium by focusing on chapter two: In a continuum there might be Gnosticism at one end and hedonism at another, but our current state of “evangelical inattention” means that we are simply not mindful […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
I'm grateful for Jonathan for taking Earthen Vessels in a direction that was lurking in the background, but considerably underdeveloped: science fiction. Looking back through Earthen Vessels, though,
Matthew Lee AndersonJustice
I am an outsider to the evangelical adoption movement, and my time at Together for Adoption did not change that. My wife and I are not considering adopting, nor am
