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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
When the Oscar nominees were announced, I was mildly surprised to see “Michael Clayton” among the nominees for Best Picture. After seeing it, that mild surprise turned into astonishment. The idea that this film could win Best picture over No […]
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
The story of South Carolina's Republican primary has been written. Mike Huckabee's campaign is in serious jeopardy, while McCain's road to the White House
Matthew Lee Anderson
On a day when we honor a man committed to racial reconciliation, Fred Sanders offers this responsible analysis of Martin Luther’s theological tradition, strengths and weaknesses: But mainly, MLK saw a big issue coming his way and knew to lean […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
How should we then read? It is a question with which I have occasionally wrestled. My freshman year of college, I was introduced to the world of hermeneutics, which seemed at the time to be the discipline of debunking other […]
Matthew Lee AndersonLiterature
Esolen’s Ironies of Faith hangs upon the premise that the Christian understands irony differently than his secular neighbor. Esolen writes: Contemporary literary theorists have attempted to distill the essence
Matthew Lee AndersonLiterature
One of the more useful aspects of Anthony Esolen’s Ironies of Faith (see my review here) is that his exploration of Christian literature highlights the disparity between their worldview
Matthew Lee AndersonLiterature
Unless criticism is so profound and stirring that it assumes the same plane as the artwork criticized, it will always be derivative. Its secondary nature, however, does not entail that
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
In October of 2006, news broke that Harvard was considering revamping it's core undergraduate curriculum. Now, over a year later, the final report and recommendations has been released.
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
Huckabee's position on the government and the economy has brought some blistering criticism on him from numerous quarters, not least of whom is Larry Kudlow (you can see
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
The standard line leading up to the Iowa victory was that Mitt Romney was losing support because of the evangelical rejection of his Mormon faith. In fact, most pundits preferred to ignore evidence to the contrary, labeling Mike Huckabee’s rise […]
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
It’s no small irony that Huckabee started to fall behind in his “rapid response” to the litany of attacks (and miscues) that he has made in recent weeks just about the time Joe Carter left his campaign. Joe has posted […]
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
One of the concerns Paul Horwitz addresses in his excellent paper on Article Six of the Constitution (discussed here) is the loss of Article Six as a standard for political
