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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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Where Should the Evangelical Theological Renewal Begin? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Or with which doctrine, anyway. That was the question that the folks at Patheos asked a number of evangelical pastors and theologians.  The responses are worth reading in full, but Mark Roberts‘ is (not surprisingly) especially good: Let me explain […]

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Ambiguously Human - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Oliver O’Donovan’s Begotten or Made is 86 pages that will change your life. Readers of Mere-O know my ongoing fascination with O’Donovan, whom I regard as the best living theologian in the English-speaking world.  After slowly digesting his trilogy on […]

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Reading the Hymns: All Praise to Thee, my God, This Night

Reading the Hymns: All Praise to Thee, my God, This Night

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Patrol, Apolitical Evangelicals, and Post-Modernism - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

My friends at Patrol had one of their best days of content since I have been reading them. First, check out Alissa Harris’ affirmation of the apolitical nature of traditional evangelicals: However, when I look at my own parents and […]

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Are Christian Blogs Boring?

Are Christian Blogs Boring?

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How Politically Engaged are Evangelicals? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

If you trust the media, it’s all we do.  And if you trust many of the younger evangelical set, they’ll immediately concur. But when you compare evangelicals to other branches of Christianity, the reality is surprising.  Evangelicals, it turns out, […]

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The Objectification of Jennifer Knapp - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

When I heard that Jennifer Knapp came out as a lesbian today, I shuddered. But not for why you think. No.  I shuddered because the news meant another round of conversations about evangelicals and homosexuality.  And that is a conversation which […]

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What Children in the Womb Know

What Children in the Womb Know

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The Top Posts from March

The Top Posts from March

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Reading the Hymns: A Charge to Keep I Have - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

It’s impossible to talk about hymns for very long without running into that hymn making machine that was Charles Wesley.  While he is most famous–and justly so–for his Christmas offering , he wrote some 6000 hymns. A Charge to Keep […]

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God and the Body at Newsweek

God and the Body at Newsweek

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Mere-O Chats: Joe Carter - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In this episode, Joe Carter and I argue about his book, How to Argue like Jesus, and how the Christian blogging community has fared in striving to do precisely that.