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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
I’ve got some thoughts over at Christianity Today on the proper response for evangelicals to the recent ruling on Proposition 8: Practically, I think we have relied too heavily on the will of the majority as our foundation for our […]
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I spent all morning reading the decision, which has incited all sorts of furor from social conservatives. I will have more on the decision and its implications later, but wanted
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If there is an issue that the evangelical left and right speak with a single voice on, sex trafficking is it. The trade has received an increasing amount of attention the past two years. While it started before Amazing Grace, […]
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Talking about the Gospel is all the rage these days. Everyone wants to know precisely how big it should be–does it include working for justice (which is invariably social justice), or not? With that in mind, I decided to put […]
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James Payton Jr. has a mission. He thinks that Protestants have gotten the Reformation and its teachings wrongs, and has set about in his latest book to correct the errors.
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I’ve fallen off the Friday Night Light’s wagon. Not the bandwagon, mind you. Its much less dramatic than that. I had committed to blogging through this season, which…well, let’s just leave that aside. I’ll stand by my recommendation, though, that […]
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One more on Christians (of all kinds) in the academy. From Timothy Larsen, professor at Wheaton College, on the anti-Christian bias among the academy: A persecution complex is not
Matthew Lee AndersonEvangelicalism
I've got some thoughts up at Patheos on the future of evangelicalism. There's nothing terribly revolutionary in there to longtime readers of Mere-O, though (if
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The conversation below about evangelical academics and their improv training is pretty much over. I've been convinced by it, though, that the Wall Street Journal piece misrepresented the
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I continue to be troubled by the structure of David Jones' argument regarding the ethics of cremation. Let's review his conclusion: After reviewing some of the key
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“HUMANKIND CANNOT BEAR VERY MUCH REALITY” That from T.S. Eliot’s The Four Quartets, his “answer” to the problems he raised in The Wasteland. Or at least I think
Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsPolitical Theology
While rereading To Change the World, I came across this passage, where Hunter almost anticipates my remarks: Some argue that what we need is a redefinition of politics, one that
