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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
“At the close of the twentieth century, the female body poses an enormous problem for American girls, and it does so because of the culture in which we live.” So opens Joan Jacobs Brumberg’s The Body Project: An Intimate History […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
Over on Mere-O Abridged (the sidebar), where I highlight interesting articles by attempting a pithy line about them, I highlighted a review of the recently released research indicating that homosexuals can, in fact, change their behavior. The main thrust of […]
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To make a trivial claim, it's important for us to learn from the difficult and painful experiences that we encounter. Of course, it's important to learn
Matthew Lee AndersonEducation
Rachel Donaio has recently reviewed the state of the canon wars in light of the twentieth anniversary of Allan Bloom’s explosive Closing of the American Mind. It is, it seems, a balanced piece that raises numerous interesting questions. I have […]
Matthew Lee AndersonScience
When modern science approaches the world, it asks two questions of it: what is the nature and arrangement of the matter under consideration, and how did that arrangement come to
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When last I wrote about GodBlogCon, I pointed out that an impending move to Saint Louis was going to make it harder to attend. The only significant obstacle to my
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I've made two updates to the sidebar here at Mere O. One, I am tentatively trying out "Blog Rush." What is that, you ask? It is
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If you haven't noticed, there is a burgeoning industry of fake blogs written by celebrities. Steve Jobs has a fake blog. Soes Lindsey Lohan. Apparently, so does D.
Matthew Lee AndersonFilm Reviews/Hollywood
I have sometimes experienced a rather odd sensation of not knowing whether I liked a movie. When I exited The Departed, for instance, I knew that I had just witnessed
Matthew Lee Anderson
There’s hope for aspiring authors. Alfred Knopf, who founded and ran Knopf Publishing (now owned by RandomHouse), missed nearly as many gems as he published: In the summer of 1950, Alfred A. Knopf Inc. turned down the English-language rights to […]
Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsSociety
If there was any doubt that 9/11 still lingers on in our consciousness, it should be put to rest. On this, the sixth anniversary of the tragic attack, people
Matthew Lee AndersonBlogging
When I first started blogging, I would argue that it was as close to a meritocracy as I have ever seen. “The good stuff,” I argued, “almost always gets picked up and moved to the top of the heap. Good […]
