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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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Grief in Infertility: Together for Adoption National Conference

In a world where every aspect of the procreative process is shaped by the omnipotence and omnipresent arm of technology, it can be easy to forget the fundamental miracle that

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Together for Adoption National Conference

I'm hanging out this weekend at Together for Adoption, which is ground zero for the evangelical adoption movement.  If you're in the Phoenix area or attending

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The Generosity of Adoption: Together for Adoption National Conference

The constant temptation when gathering to talk about a subdiscipline is that we will lose sight of the first things. That temptation is exacerbated when that subdiscipline is a pragmatically oriented one, an area of the world in which we […]

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EV Symposium: Sci-Fi and the Technocratic Impulse (Ch. 1)

Matt’s note:  this is the first post in the Earthen Vessels Symposium.  Jonathan Sprowl was kind enough to provide this intriguing reflection.  He is the Assistant Editor of Men of Integrity magazine and Editor of Leading Outreach newsletter. We were created […]

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The Earthen Vessels Symposium: An Invitation

When you write a book, it's easy to allow the pressures of marketing and selling to eclipse the more basic, fundamental reasons that you sent out on the

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From the Garden to the City: A Review

Eric Eekhoff is a reader of Mere-O who occasionally reviews books for us.  His last contribution was the definitive review of Tim Challies's book on technology.  I

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Desacralizing Politics and David Brooks

David Brooks: Ward (who is inexplicably being replaced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo) rescued the ground zero project by disenchanting it, by seeing it as it is, not through shrouds of

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The World and Everything in It: Facebook Timeline

That's the name of the radio news show that our friends at World Magazine launched a few months back. Spearheaded by publisher Nick Eicher and his golden voice,

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Together for Adoption: Join me in Phoenix

I'm honored to join Dan Cruver, my pastor, and a whole host of folks at Together for Adoption in Phoenix. As an interested observer, but not direct participant

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The Great Books Reader: A Giveaway

The Great Books Reader is the tapas of the great books canon. If you don't know, 'tapas' is a Spanish appetizer that, over time, became popular

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Pat Robertson, Divorce, and Alzheimers on Issues, Etc.

I had the joy of being invited to talk with the folks at Issues, etc. yesterday about my two columns on Pat Robertson. There were a number of excellent callers

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What Robertson Means for Marriage

Part two of my thoughts on Robertson and marriage, over at the Washington Post. My basic argument there is that the reaction should be seen as a genuine sign of