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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
Our friends over at Wheatstone Academy have begun a new bi-monthly web-magazine that they are calling The Examined Life. I’ve done work for Wheatstone in the past few months (speaking and designing curriculum) because I am convinced they are at […]
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Here's the play-by-play, for those who have been asleep. Brett McCracken wrote a book, which Jamie Smith reviewed. I replied to Jamie Smith, who offered the
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And not the sort of tea parties I really enjoy. All the same, co-belligerent Joe Carter and I discuss the current political scene over at Trevin Wax's
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Jamie Smith, the author of the excellent book Desiring the Kingdom (my review is here), has penned a scathing review of Brett McCracken's Hipster Christianity. I don'
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Rumors that Jake Meador makes a guest appearance turn out to be false, but at least he sent it over to me. I suspect its things like this that really change the world. Enjoy.
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
In 2007, Mitt Romney blew his chance to be the Republican nominee by giving a particularly wooden speech to the audience whose support and energy he most needed: the "
Matthew Lee AndersonEvangelicalism
When Andrée Seu wrote that Glenn Beck is a "new creation in Christ," despite the fact that he is a "Mormon and all that," conservative evangelicals
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As evangelicalism has grown increasingly fragmented in recent years (or at least, as more articles get written saying it is), the labels to organize the different types of evangelicals have grown accordingly. We have emerging evangelicals, social justice evangelicals, […]
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In a famous quip about Revelation, G.K. Chesterton wrote, "And though St. John the Evangelist saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild
Matthew Lee Anderson
When Jon Acuff writes about sex, people pay attention. Actually, that’s not quite right. When anyone writes about sex, people pay attention. It’s impossible not to. Even though we’ve probably heard everything there is to say about the matter, we […]
Matthew Lee AndersonChurch
Doug Wilson has been at the forefront of arguing for what he calls “Mere Christendom” of late, and I’m grateful to him for it. Even though we disagree on some important particulars, there’s nothing objectionable about this bit: The mistake […]
Matthew Lee AndersonBlogging
So, one guy writes a post about how young people who were raised within the church are leaving behind Christianity and offers a few reasons why. Good post. Dude’s got a book coming out on the topic, and it looks […]
