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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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T.S. Eliot reads about Good Friday

[youtube o-9gcauuboc 640:480] The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer's

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A Consensus on Intergenerational Justice?

Editor's note:  This is a guest post written by Daniel Suhr, a friend of Mere-O.  You can see the whole event video here.  Enjoy and discuss responsibly.

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Four Reasons we need a 'Theology of Presence'

While Christians are currently very excited about technology and our ability to use the tools responsibly and for the proper ends, the purpose of some of those technologies will be determined in part by the nature of who is using […]

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Christian Web Conference: A Few Parting Thoughts

I just got back late last night from the Christian Web Conference, a gathering out at the alma mater that I’ve been involved with for several years. While I’ve enjoyed every conference I’ve been at, this one was particularly fun […]

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Under Review: The Lincoln Lawyer

I've got something of a soft spot for crime dramas and legal thrillers.  I don't read the books, as I prefer to spend my reading downtime

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Blaming Terry Jones

Once you're done amusing yourself on this lovely Friday afternoon, give Christopher Tollefsen's interesting argument against Terry Jones' (the infamous Koran burning pastor) a read.

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Your Friday Moment of Zen

Brought to you, naturally enough, by people in the forest with lots of small pieces of wood and video cameras: Never did Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring sound quite so natural.  Too bad it’s an advertisement.

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The Church and Academics: A Reply to Donald Miller

Donald Miller: The first disciples were not teachers, they were fishermen, tax collectors and at least one was a Zealot. We don’t know the occupation of the others, but

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Raging against God.

Mere-O alumnus Keith Buhler has an interesting review of Peter Hitchens' book over at The Examined Life, the excellent online bimonthly from the a place where you should

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The Missing Evangelicals

I was honored to make my Comment Magazine debut late last week. Comment, which is edited by polymath Alissa Wilkinson, plays in the substantive, culturally astute neo-Reformed space inhabited

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Rebecca Black is Cooler than You (and Me)

You may have heard of her music video which now has an astonishing 72 million views on YouTube.  Horribly bad, yes.  But her analysis of it is nothing short of pure awesomeness: (HT: Mashable)

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The Pentecostal Natural Law Tradition

If it didn't exist before, Dale Coulter is making it happen: I think that evangelicals largely operate within what I will call a Ciceronian-Augustinian trajectory that runs