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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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Mere-O Miscellanea: Abbreviated Thoughts from Around the Web

Mere-O Miscellanea: Abbreviated Thoughts from Around the Web

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Romney Reinventing Himself....Again - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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 […]

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The New Dating Game - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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 […]

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The Emerging Church is Dead(?)

The Emerging Church is Dead(?)

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The Witness of Being Weird - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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 […]

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Modernity and Medieval Science - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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 […]

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A Biological Basis for Traditional Marriage?

A Biological Basis for Traditional Marriage?

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Babies: The Most Endearing Film of 2010

Babies: The Most Endearing Film of 2010

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Marriage in a Media Age - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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 […]

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Playing the (a)Theological Mystery Card

Playing the (a)Theological Mystery Card

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In Case You Missed It: January's Top Posts - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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 […]

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God of the Body/Soul Gap - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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 […]