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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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The Movies are Dead: The Sequel

Mark Harris: The good news is that the four-quadrant theory of marketing may now be eroding. The bad news is that it's giving way to something worse—

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"Civil Societarianism" and the Place of the Church

Erik Kain: I view civil society as inherently cooperative rather than competitive. Whether you view government as a weed or not, privatizing traditionally public services by handing them over or

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Homosexuality and the Coming Religious Conflict?

The news out of Britian: There is no place in British law for Christian beliefs, despite this country’s long history of religious observance and the traditions of the established

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The Polarization of Hollywood

Movies are getting worse, Moki tells us.  And the way they know that is that successful movies are increasingly more polarizing.  The chart is of the top 20 movies from

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(When) Is Lying Wrong?

Lila Rose’s explosive undercover video exposing a  Planned Parenthood worker who gave professional advice to someone masquerading as a pimp with an under-age sex ring has generated a national debate over the organization and its role. But it has also […]

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Earthen Vessels: The First Interview

I was honored to be interviewed by James Poulos, one of my favorite young conservative writers on his worthy show The Bottom Line for PJTV. I struggle to understand 3/4 of what James says, but I struggle because I know […]

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A Self-Imposed Silence: Fitzgerald's Response

Jonathan Fitzgerald responds to my point about the conversation that we cannot have: So then, does my calling for “a moratorium on debates over what qualifies as sin in other peoples’ lives” translate into a call for the end of […]

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Comments trouble.

Our comments have currently disappeared at Mere-O and aren't letting people interact.  So if you're trying, I apologize.  Hopefully we can get it squared away

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Taking on Caitlin Flanagan's Latest

It's apparently "sex week" at Mere-O. I have an essay up this morning at First Things examining Caitlin Flanagan's latest essay in The

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The Conversation Our Culture Cannot Have, But Must Anyway

There is no understating the devastating nature of the tragedy last week in Uganda.  David Kato, a leading gay rights activist, was brutally murdered.  It is an unconscionable, horrendous event,

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*The Deep Things of God* in Christianity Today

I've made no secret of the fact that I'm a fan of Fred Sanders' Deep Things of God.  I was honored, though, that Christianity Today

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The Individualizing Presence

Ingolf Dalferth: In all its varieties the Christian sense of the presence of God individualizes, i.e. transforms particular human beings into individual persons. When it dawns upon me that