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. What’s this? A mailbag on Tuesday? “Burn him at the stakes for heresy!” I know, I know, but hey I’ve been traveling a […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 31
02 Jul 2019
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Trump’s Executive Folly
15 Feb 2019
Today, President Donald J. Trump (R) declared a national emergency due to the southern border. His decree came not long after signing a spending bill that included money to secure the border. Let that sink in for a moment. Trump is relying on the National Emergencies Act (1976), which was an effort to reign in […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 11
14 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. Well, it took long enough, but it appears that winter has officially gotten with the whole “snow” business, and, depending on where you […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 7
10 Dec 2018
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. Before we get going on today’s mailbag, I have to note the name length of our first questioner, who took it upon himself […]
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Weekly Sage #6: Willmoore Kendall
07 Dec 2018
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. Willmoore Kendall – “Similarly, insofar as it is a generally-accepted principle of modern political philosophy and modern politics that the purpose of society, government, and law is […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 5
26 Nov 2018
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. We’ll have a much shorter mailbag this week seeing as the food-induced comatose of that blessed holiday we call Thanksgiving is only […]
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Kavanaugh Part 3: Bereans VLOG (10/8/2018)
09 Oct 2018
Greetings! We have what we think is a final vlog on Brett Kavanaugh’s SCOTUS nomination. Today we discuss the cultural implications of the nomination and a few other tidbits. As always, leave questions below and see the actual video in the site plug-in.
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Bill Cosby as a Lesson for Our Political Moment
26 Sep 2018
I grew up in prime Bill Cosby years. When I was quite young, I watched Fat Albert, the cartoon where Cosby gave a voice to a memorable cast of characters. “Hey, Hey, Hey” was a constant catchphrase for me and my friends. Later, I watched The Cosby Show, one of the most beloved and influential […]
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Hope & Change SCOTUS Style
29 Jun 2018
The professor in me, the one who teaches Constitutional Law, works hard to expose students to a range of thinking about our nation’s enduring governing document. Yes, I have my bias, but I try to make sure students read and understand both Scalia and Ginsburg, Thomas and Breyer. At the same time, I think originalism […]
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Can’t you feel it coming? The fuse is lit and the hypnotic hiss is curving toward the powder keg called “Armageddon.” There are no wise feet to stomp on the flame and no scissors to cut the line at the last second. The explosion could be unlike anything we have seen since the violence of […]
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