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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 AndersonPolitics
Sally Bedell Smith published an excerpt of her forthcoming book on the Clinton White House in Vanity Fair. It is an interesting portrayal of how Hillary and Al’s respective campaigns clashed in the 2004 elections. Choice quotes: Bill and Hillary’s […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEducation
Friend and fellow blogger Brant DeBow has tagged me in a meme about books that I have decided to take up. I won’t pass it along, but I thought some of you may be interested. Oh, and since the Bible […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
Recently, my good friend and teacher Dr. John Mark Reynolds glossed the opening to Plato’s Phaedrus, which opens with the provocative set of questions, “Where did you come from, and where are you going?” Doctor Reynolds points out that we […]
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
Adolescent brains, it turns out, are different from adult brains in at least one way. As neuroscientist Deborah Yurgelun-Todd has found, adolescents use a different part of their brain
Matthew Lee AndersonDiscussion Leading
*Note: After taking a summer break from this series, I am returning to it and will finish it this fall. For other posts in the series, see the bottom of this post.* The flexible nature of discussion presents an inherent […]
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorizedBooks
There are few books that I read (fortunately) that hit me with what I can only describe as "explosive force." In fact, Karen Horney's Neurosis and
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
David Gushee has written a piece in Christianity Today lamenting the fact that Christians supported the decision to invade Iraq. In it, he contends that now that public opinion has
Matthew Lee AndersonBooks
GodBlogCon, with which I have been formally associated in the past, rests on the assumption that Christians should engage culture and do so using whatever tools are at our disposal.
Matthew Lee AndersonBooks
For many, the future is a source of anxiety. Macbeth's temptation--to know with certainty the outcome of our lives--is powerful because it is common. Yet there
Matthew Lee Andersonembodiment
Music has a body. Or, as Jeremy Begbie argues in the latest Books and Culture, the expression of music is inseparable from corporeality. Music making and music hearing are ways we engage the physical world. Even in the case of […]
Matthew Lee AndersonTheology and Practice
After watching The Bourne Ultimatum again (this time with my wife), I am even more convinced and intrigued by Mere-O reader Nobody's analysis of it: But after
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When I first heard about Kid Nation, the new reality tv-show by CBS, I was excited. Having been recently been made aware by Dr. Epstein about the ways our
