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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.
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Over the next month, we're going to host a few guest voices here at Mere-O. It's summer, which means that things will probably be a
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Hang around evangelicalism long enough and you’re bound to hear the “gnostic” critique. It was given the most legitimacy by N.T. Wright in Surprised by Hope, who reminded the world that our bodies are raised up in the last day. […]
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From Scott Adam's cheeky and amusing piece recommending that you invest in companies you hate: "When companies make money, we assume they are well-managed. That perception
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So, one of the things that I said I'd do after the Lost Finale was spend some time writing about Friday Night Lights, for two reasons: (1) I
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And is awfully kind. "Again, and on another point raised by the critics, the relation of soul and body in Descartes is often badly misunderstood. There is indeed a
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This is a letter that I wrote to a friend who is leaving behind the Christian faith. I hope to begin a dialog with her, and may post excerpts from
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Tonight I enjoyed some of the best free Shakespeare I've ever seen, and one of the most difficult plays to pull of well, too. It's long,
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Okay, here we go....after the many, many suggestions, we've started narrowing down ideas. Did I mention that I'm about the worst person in the world
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The virtue of Gerald McDermott’s The Great Theologians is that it condenses the central contributions of eleven of history’s most influential Christian thinkers into a readable and accesible format. And McDermott makes this seem easy. The Great Theologians introduces a […]
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It looks as though college students who hit college after 2000 are significantly less empathetic than those who came before them: College students who hit campus after 2000 have empathy
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John Fawcett was a Baptist. If you listen to critics of Baptists (and evangelicals), he should have had no idea about the role that community played in the Christian life. The emphasis on individual salvation, personal piety, and going to […]
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In the early days of Mere-O, I thought about carving out a niche as a cautious critic of the technological developments that are happening all around us. Everywhere I
