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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 AndersonUncategorized
It is an odd fact about American culture and the gay marriage debate that while conservatives are winning (at least for the moment) the public opinion battle, they are losing
Matthew Lee Anderson
It’s been a long time since I have posted consistently here at Mere-O, or anywhere else for that matter. The new position at Evangelical Outpost and my day job have conspired to sap nearly all my intellectual energy. I simply […]
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
There are few decisions or events in our media saturated era that happen without the requisite context to pass a reasonable judgment. And judgement–in a non-pejorative sense–is precisely what political punditry offers the political process. The ability to assess information, […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
There’s little left to say about Public Enemies that Brett McCracken (who is working on a book on hipster Christianity that is sure to be a must-read) hasn’t already said. More than anything, Public Enemies revels in and inflates […]
Matthew Lee AndersonChurch
The Christian Web Conference, which is happening this September at Biola University, has started a monthly newsletter for "web pioneers." It's designed to feature articles of
Matthew Lee Anderson
In case you missed it, First Things got a facelift last weekend. A few of my favorite blogs now reside there, including Wesley J. Smith’s Secondhand Smoke and the ineffable James Polous’ cohort of Postmodern Conservatives. Second, the brilliant […]
Matthew Lee AndersonPro-Life
Last Thursday, Maggie Gallagher pronounced that the trouble with social conservatives is that they "have had bad models for political action" and that they "lack institutions that
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
I haven't had many blog-length thoughts of late, but here are a few of the things I've read recently and found interesting: The Ten Most
Matthew Lee AndersonTechnology
Continuing from our previous thoughts: the question of technology and our modern understanding of it is a question of whether the pursuit of scientific reasoning is to be bounded by
Matthew Lee AndersonTechnology
Andrew Feenberg, who specializes in the philosophy of technology, points out that the crucial difference between modern and pre-modern conceptions of technology. He writes: "In the Greek view
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
(Editor’s Note: During the Lenten season, we have invited guest writers to post reflections here at Mere-O. Micah Hoover is an engineer by day, and a blogger by night. He posts Kierkegaardian-style meditations on the Christian life at his blog […]
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
The past few weeks, I have had an ongoing conversation with a friend who has experienced traumatic evils and has questions about how to respond to them as a Christian. This is the latest installment in that series: it begins […]
