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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
“Are you going to be the Tina Fey of your field?” That’s the question that was put to some of evangelicalism’s best and brightest, who gathered at Veritas Riff, the new program from the estimable Veritas Forum, to learn the […]
Matthew Lee AndersonMetaphysics (Ontology)
Milliner’s characteristically incisive remarks today include this graph from James Matthew Wilson: The meaning of the world that we usually describe as constituting culture, or a culture… does not depend primarily upon our social conventions. Rather, the signs of a […]
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
It's an odd topic, but one that I find fascinating. Like all matters of practical wisdom, the question of cremation highlights the presuppositions we have and how those
Matthew Lee AndersonEducation
There is an enormous amount that I have to be grateful for. One year ago, I left my employment as a financial planner in order to pursue a crazy dream
Matthew Lee Anderson
Should we put capitalism and traditional views of marriage back on the table? That’s the claim that James Davison Hunter made in the question and answer period. It was obviously a direct reply to my remarks, even though he didn’t […]
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
Milliner's synopsis about my reply to James Davison Hunter is accurate, even if his praise is overstated. And make no mistake--it is. But because a few folks
Matthew Lee Anderson
Over the past few months, I have been incredibly grateful for the incredible feedback and support in my hour of need: coming up with a title for my yet unfinished book. It’s an enormous challenge to name a book (though […]
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James Davidson Hunter's To Change the World has been hailed as one of the most important analyses of evangelicalism in recent memory. Our own ridiculously prolific guest-blogger
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
For your convenience, I have collated all the posts from the chapter. * Introduction * On being Technology Fans * The Problem of Desensitization ( part 1) * The Problem of Desensitization (part 2) * The
Matthew Lee AndersonTechnology
The world around us is hardly static, as the high schoolers I talked with seemed to think. New technologies continue to open new possibilities, extending individuals’ and communities’ means of
Matthew Lee Anderson
I have already mentioned the potential stultifying effect of consuming lots of information and the danger of reinforcing our inauthentic self-presentation. To those dangers, then, I would add a third: new media has the power to divorce us from the […]
Matthew Lee AndersonTechnology
Losing Reality: New Media and our Relation to the World G.K. Chesterton did not offer his social criticism in essay form only. His novels are full of commentary, such
