This is Not Vanity: Reflections on Turning Thirty

January 20th, 2012 | 4 min read

I have, that I can remember, never marked my birthdays here at Mere-O. For most of my online history, I have kept such moments private, as making much of them invariably seems to satisfy no one.

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Matthew Lee Anderson

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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This is Not Vanity: Reflections on Turning Thirty

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