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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 AndersonPolitics
2012 is a long ways away, but that hasn’t stopped speculators from gaming the Presidential race on the Republican side, where there is no definitive frontrunner. Partly what makes the Republican party so intriguing these days is the lack of […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
Charlotte Allen has a long piece in The Weekly Standard that highlights the contemporary dating game and the pathologies–there’s really no other word–that drive it. From her conclusion: The whole point of the sexual and feminist revolutions was to […]
Matthew Lee AndersonChurch
Or at least on life support. Andrew Jones suggested that 2009 represented a decisive year for the movement, and he's been as careful observer of it as any.
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
One of the main themes of Evangel’s early days was evangelicals’ complex relationship to culture. I recently came across Evangel contributor Dr. Russell Moore’s astute analysis on the question from 2007 in the pages of Touchstone, the other ecumenical magazine of […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
Like Matt Milliner, I’m impressed by David Schaengold’s post over at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen, wherein he relates observation decks, science, and the joy of observation: Being happy merely to see and to understand, as scientists are, is the […]
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
Heather MacDonald's latest piece at National Review explores some of the questions surrounding gay marriage, and the difficulties that arise when parental status and identity is established solely
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
I've watched this trailer three times now, and I just can't quit. HT: Josh Trevino
Matthew Lee Anderson
The report that Mark Sanford didn’t want to include a vow of fidelity in their wedding vows is the least surprising, and the saddest, news I have heard in a while. According to his wife, the discredited governor of South […]
Matthew Lee AndersonTheology and Practice
Every theologian, wanna-be theologian, a-theologian, and otherwise thinking person has one. Discuss a point of theology long enough, and you'll inevitably see it played. Call it
Matthew Lee Anderson
It’s been a productive month here at Mere-O, and our largest month ever in terms of traffic (thanks!). We’re grateful for all the new readers we have, and for all the comments and feedback. Even when I can’t respond as […]
Matthew Lee AndersonembodimentAnthropology
I’m generally sympathetic to Robert Gundry’s helpful explication of the role of the body in Biblical theology. His careful exegetical work foreshadowed John Cooper’s conclusions in Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting: the anthropology of Scripture points toward something like a […]
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
Over the past five years, Mere-O's slate of writers has seen quite a bit of turnover. We've had a number of writers graduate to other
