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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 Anderson
Well, here’s a new thing. Me on video, for the first time in my Mere-O career. I decided to go all “Rob Bell” on you (if Rob Bell wore Banana Republic, that is). I was uncertain about doing a book […]
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We're a little over two weeks away from the release of my first book. I've got all the nervousness of a first-time author. When I
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Peter Leithart: If Adam was posted as guard, then he was supposed to resist. Even in an unfallen world, Adam had to resist evil; my argument in Defending Constantine is
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Michael Brendan Dougherty, who offered one of the better formulated essays in this volume, has the latest analysis of evangelicals' relationship with conservatism. It's popular to talk
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Sojourners, the bastion of evangelical progressivism, has found itself in a maelstrom of criticism. Sojourners rejected an advertisement by Believe Out Loud, an interdenominational outfit dedicated to helping churches and
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“The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man.” That’s Paul, who knew a little about the God who made the world. But the abrogation […]
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We're about one month out from the release of Earthen Vessels, and there's a little bit of news worth talking about. I may talk more personally
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When the news of Usama bin Laden’s death broke on Twitter last night, I was preparing with my wife to settle in to watch the latest episode of one of our not-so-guilty pleasures, Friday Night Lights. We paused to feel […]
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Trevin Wax has solidified his role as one of the Christian blogging community's most insightful writers and one of the leaders of a new crop of young writers
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The news that China had (again) put members of the unregistered Shouwang Church in jail on Easter has brought a new round of international scrutiny to the Chinese government’s uneasy relationship with Christianity. Shouwang Church meets outdoors precisely because the […]
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Joe Gorra, who is one of the best interviewers I know, has a fascinating conversation with friend and mentor Fred Sanders and his co-conspirator Jason Sexton on their new
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Teaching about solitude often points us to the times when Jesus isolates himself to pray, as in Luke 6:12-13. But we often neglect that in the movement from Good Friday to Easter, it is the silence of Saturday that we […]
