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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 AndersonPro-Life
The NY Times reported last Wednesday that three former Surgeon Generals had felt pressure from their respective administrations to suppress stories for political reasons. The story was a precursor to
Matthew Lee AndersonBooks
As someone interested in all things pertaining to education and the university, it was with no little eagerness that I picked up Tom Wolfe’s I Am Charlotte Simmons. When
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
The crew behind GodBlogCon have pulled together a stellar lineup of speakers for this year's event, adding to the usual suspects the heavy firepower of Al Mohler. What&
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
Conservatives have suspected it for a long, long time--the disgruntlement with the war at the NY Times has seeped into headlines, articles and the stories they choose to run.
Matthew Lee Anderson
I’ll be reading Philebus all weekend with some friends, so blogging may be a bit lighter. Here are a few stories that caught my eye this week. O Death, where is thy victory? Al Mohler writes that a German cable […]
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
When I offered three cheers and a jeer for evangelical worship music, I thought it might require some clarification and qualification. Like anything, this is a difficult issue if only because it’s not clear what worship songs–or hymns–are under consideration […]
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Mark Olson, whose digs are over at Pseudo-Polymath, is (with my brother) one of the blogosphere’s best-kept secrets. He not only manages to find interesting links every morning, but frequently manages to write provocative and sophisticated content. A cyclist, Mark […]
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From the G.K. Chesterton archives on this Independance Day: This is the first principle of democracy: that the essential things in men are the things they hold in common,
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
Since they are obviously in need of defending. Lawrence Henry has made the classic case against modern praise songs--they have trite lyrics and bad music. They are “whitebread,” lacking
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I'll be taking a brief respite from blogging as we are leaving to hike the Grand Canyon this morning. Prayers would be appreciated, as the wife is rather
Matthew Lee Anderson
Remember Terri Schiavo? Like Schiavo, Jesse Ramirez, a gulf war veteran who was comatose as a result of a car accident, was slated to have his feeding tubes removed. They were taken out for five days but then replaced when […]
Matthew Lee AndersonBooks
To speak of the “birth and death of the neoconservative movement” would be a misnomer. After all, there was no such movement. Rather, as Irving Kristol argues, neoconservatism is a
