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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.
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That’s the subject of my short essay over at Relevant Magazine. I sound a note that will doubtlessly be a familiar one to readers of Mere-O and of Earthen Vessels, but the brouhaha affords evangelicals an opportunity to re-examine our […]
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In the introduction to Earthen Vessels, I wrote that my hope was that the book would generate conversation within our quirky movement about our physical bodies and the role they play in God’s redemptive purposes in our lives and the […]
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What one book would you have a college student read? It's not necessarily an easy question. There are hundreds of guides for college students out there, some of
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They’re coming a little late this month, as last weekend (when I normally put them together) was a busy one for me. But don’t let that stop you from enjoying the most popular and interesting posts during the month of […]
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I was sitting inside a prayer chapel, trying to meet with the Almighty. When we say where we were, we fold the world into our own stories, weaving it between
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Apologies for returning to this theme yet again, but this is what happens when discussions occur and I have words to say. At any rate, The Christian Post took a
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Sojourners, the leading organization of the evangelical left, can’t seem to escape the controversy that erupted in March when it rejected an advertisement from Believe out Loud, an organization trying to “significantly increase the number of local churches and denominations […]
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Andrew Walker on Alisa Harris' new memoir: Harris gets a lot right in her book—namely, that “something is deeply wrong with the evangelical politics in which our childhood
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My friend Joe has taken up the Overton window of late as a way into explaining how cultures decay. I know we are supposed to be beyond that fear-based
Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels
Trevin Wax is one of the most thoughtful and careful thinkers in the Christian blogging community, so it was an honor to have him endorse Earthen Vessels. But it was also fun (and challenging) to have him toss some fastballs […]
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My friend Christopher Benson has some thoughtful and provocative meditations on the above painting and others by the recently departed Lucian Freud. I was not familiar with his work, but Benson has me convinced that I should be: Freud’s […]
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In the fall of last year, Al Mohler initiated a firestorm by suggesting that “yoga cannot be fully extricated from its spiritual roots in Hinduism and Buddhism.” In making his argument, Mohler was drawing on Stefanie Symen’s The Subtle Body. […]
