The Weekly Sage hopes to regularly bring brief profiles of key contributors to thought and faith before a Christian audience for historical education and awareness of valuable resources. Hannah Arendt “The philistine’s retirement into private life, his single-minded devotion to matters of family and career was the last, and already degenerated product of the bourgeoisie’s […]
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Weekly Sage #16: Hannah Arendt
22 Feb 2019
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 14
04 Feb 2019
Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com. A friend was talking with me the other day, and he brought up the fact that you really never really know what’s going […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 13
28 Jan 2019
Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com. Another week, another round of spicy questions and burning inquiries. To the action, then. Q: Charles asks: “What do you think has a […]
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***This is Part 3 of a series of articles on the necessity of Christian Love in the Political Arena. Here are links to Part 1 and Part 2.*** Who Do You Love? A Dispatch from the Culture War Shane Windmeyer is the executive director of Campus Pride, an LGBTQ organization that focuses on rights for […]
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Weekly Sage #10: Alexander Pope
11 Jan 2019
The Weekly Sage hopes to regularly bring brief profiles of key contributors to thought and faith before a Christian audience for historical education and awareness of valuable resources. Alexander Pope – “Go, wiser thou! And in thy scale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against providence; Call imperfection what thou fancy’st such, Say, here he gives […]
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***This is Part 2 of a series of articles on the necessity of Christian Love in the Political Arena. Part 1 is here.*** Enemies? Love Them So, we find ourselves in a social and political environment that fosters not merely disagreement, but fighting. We are in a mood that demands not contests, but wars. Since […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 10
08 Jan 2019
Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com. Ah, 2019…..feels a lot like 2018 to be honest, but it’s good to back. I don’t have much to say for an introduction […]
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Weekly Sage #9: John of Salisbury
04 Jan 2019
The Weekly Sage hopes to regularly bring brief profiles of key contributors to thought and faith before a Christian audience for historical education and awareness of valuable resources. John of Salisbury – “I have seen during my time numerous men meddling with sacred offices and rashly setting them upon their shoulders…I have seen others […]
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Romney or Falwell? GOP on the Brink
03 Jan 2019
Donald Trump’s presidency is about far more than mid-term elections or the various candidates jockeying to defeat him in 2020. His presence is defining the Republican Party. The lingering question is the degree to which his legacy will be lasting. This week we saw two Republican responses to Donald Trump. They present two paths forward, […]
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***This is Part 1 of a series of articles on the necessity of Christian Love in the Political Arena.*** “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be […]