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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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File this one under the “Questions worth Asking” category. Rob Moll has an excellent summation of a few articles highlighting the way medical expenses are altering how we think about end-of-life decisions and the recommendations doctors make: Certainly life is […]
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In 2005, Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins reinvigorated the nearly moribund franchise and introduced a needed sense of gravitas into the comic book genre. Now, three years later, he has returned with The Dark Knight, a riveting and thoughtful exploration of […]
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It has been brought to my attention that we are currently bombarding folks who read us by RSS with a lot of spam links. Apologies for this--no one hates
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In his remarks during his remarkable series on the differences between Islam and Christianity's theories of Just War, our very own Tex wrote: Islamic political theory on the
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It is easy to turn a blind eye to G.K. Chesterton's anti-Semitism on grounds that he got so much else right, and on grounds that Chesterton&
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Criticizing organized religion is easy to do. In fact, it is a favored pastime for many evangelical and post-evangelical Christians who can only see institutionalized religion as "dead.
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John Schwenkler argues from a conservative Christian standpoint that resisting homosexual marriage does more harm than good: What are the realities that make this so? They stem, I think, from the fact that in a society like ours, where the […]
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C.S. Lewis's is sometimes used by Christian advocates of gay marriage. But his two marriages approach doesn't mean what they think.
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Reading Jason Kuznicki and D.A. Ridgely’s recent posts about marriage made me curious about the historical developments in the American legal understanding of marriage. Kuznicki: Ultimately, I’d like civil marriage simply to be a form of contract, combined with some […]
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The recent California Supreme Court decision to sanction homosexual marriage has launched the question of the State's relationship to matrimony back into the public consciousness. Jennifer Roback Morse,
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I made my graduation debut this past weekend with this address to a very special group of students whom I had the pleasure of teaching for a year in Torrey
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Shakespeare's religious orientation and beliefs are an endless source of speculation and bickering among those who take an interest in the Bard. And for good reason: because Shakespeare&
