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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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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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Hunter on the Power of Politics

Hunter on the Power of Politics

Matthew Lee Anderson

Evangelical "Tina Fey" Academics - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

“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 […]

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Metaphysics and Meaning of James Davison Hunter - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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 […]

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Cremation and Burial as Communal Acts

Cremation and Burial as Communal Acts

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One Year Later, a Few People to Thank

One Year Later, a Few People to Thank

Matthew Lee Anderson

Revisiting Marriage and Capitalism - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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 […]

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Expecting to Change the World: A Reply to James Davison Hunter

Expecting to Change the World: A Reply to James Davison Hunter

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Titles that Need a Book - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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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How to (Not) Change the World (Especially for DC Residents)

How to (Not) Change the World (Especially for DC Residents)

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The Dangers of New Media--All Posts

The Dangers of New Media--All Posts

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The Dangers of New Media (fin)

The Dangers of New Media (fin)

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The Dangers of New Media (The Final Critique) - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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 […]