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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 Anderson
In honor of the Oscars this Sunday, I thought I would devote this week to the five films nominated for Best Picture. So far I have reviewed Juno, Michael Clayton, and Atonement. It might be tempting for some Christians to […]
Matthew Lee AndersonFilm Reviews/Hollywood
In honor of the Oscars this Sunday, I thought I would devote this week to the five films nominated for Best Picture. So far I have reviewed Juno and Michael
Matthew Lee AndersonFilm Reviews/Hollywood
In honor of the Oscars next Sunday, I thought I would devote this week to the five films nominated for Best Picture. Previously: Michael Clayton. Juno is an engaging and
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorizedFilm Reviews/Hollywood
In honor of the Oscars next Sunday, I thought I would devote this week to the five films nominated for Best Picture. As Michael Clayton is the only movie I
Matthew Lee AndersonLiterature
I am a big fan of both G.K. Chesterton and Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. (You can read some of my thoughts about the latter here.
Matthew Lee AndersonChurch
In my reflections for Ash Wednesday, I claimed that it was “through death—in suffering, in weakness, in solitude—that the communion of saints begins. The brokenness of Jesus’ body is the birth of his people.” While I focused mainly on the […]
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorizedTechnology
"In their hoodies and lanyards and baseball caps, they do not look like gods, but after what I have just seen, it is hard not to think in those
Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsUncategorized
James Dobson is apparently going to endorse Mike Huckabee for President. Now that Mitt Romney is out of the race, Dobson clearly doesn't have to risk offending those
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
Now that Mitt Romney has exited the presidential race, it's safe to do a post-mortem on what went wrong. Few have offered more prescient remarks than Joshua
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
On Ash Wednesday, we are confronted by the inescapable frailty of human existence. As we turn toward the chief penitential season of the Christian calendar, we are exhorted to number our days, to realize that death is the trumpet that […]
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
Asceticism is one of the most frequently misunderstood and historically abused aspects of the Christian faith. But it can hardly be ignored. It is common knowledge that the earliest days of the Church were fraught with persecution and martyrdom. As […]
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
(Bumped–I realized I put in the wrong timestamp when I set it to automatically post!). For many evangelicals, the idea of regular and church-legislated engagement with spiritual disciplines such as Lent impinges upon the freedom of the individual believer. In […]
