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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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These are challenging times for Christians who want to live out the full Gospel, especially for those who seek to understand how their faith intersects with the public realm. On the one hand, Christians must understand and distinguish themselves from […]
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There have been few announcements around Mere-O that I have been more excited about than this one. In fact, I can’t think of one. Based on your feedback, we decided we needed to shake things up a little around here […]
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The liberation of that the 1960s wrought in America is now going global. While it used to be a man’s world, it may not be for long. At least that’s what Kay Hymnowitz thinks. Hymnowitz argues that the “single young […]
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How should Christians mourn their sin? For many of us, especially we Protestants, it's tempting to say we shouldn't. After all, we've received the
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Thankfully, I have already bested last year’s dismal record at picking playoff games. Whereas my only correct selection came in the first round last year, this year I chose two teams correctly! That said, to the picks for round two: […]
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I am going to be blogging through Oliver O’Donovan’s Resurrection and Moral Order: An Outline for Evangelical Ethics next week. If anyone wishes to buy a copy and read through it while I post, let me know in the comments. […]
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The new book “UnChristian” is getting a lot of play in the Christian ‘sphere right now, partly because of this article in Time highlighting the storyline of the book: Chrisitanity has an “image problem.” Young adults, ages 16-29, think badly […]
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Improv theater, which encompasses comedy and dramatic theater, happens on a stage. That is, improve theater occurs within a defined space, and consequently within a defined time. As such, it
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Last year, I experienced a level of playoff prediction failure previously unprecedented in my life. Of the seven series in the baseball playoffs, I predicted exactly one correctly. Curious to
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Fun is the new core value. So argues Matt LaBash in a Weekly Standard piece that is more dreary than insightful. LaBash thinks it's necessary, it seems, to
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A few nights ago, I briefly registered my reticence to reject neo-conservative foreign policy in light of the progress we have made in Iraq. Joshua Muravchik has written an
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A few months ago, Russell Moore penned an excellent piece in Touchstone on how Christians should begin to reconsider their position on cremation (a piece, I should point out, that spawned some excellent conversation here at Mere-O). As a practice, […]
