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. Wilhelm Ropke – “Economic integration – a network consisting of the division of labor, the mutual exchange of products and the specialization of production, coupled with the […]
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Weekly Sage #4: Wilhelm Ropke
16 Nov 2018
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Weekly Sage #3: Flannery O’Connor
09 Nov 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. Flannery O’Connor – “There was something he was searching for, something he felt he must have, some last significant culminating experience that he must make for himself […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 2
05 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. I have to begin this week’s mailbag by noting that there seems to a state of flux surrounding the official description of this […]
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The Weekly Sage #2: Raymond Aron
02 Nov 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. Raymond Aron “Why is it so difficult to evolve an ideology, in the sense of a total system of interpretation and action? For contemporary societies, scientific and […]
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The Weekly Sage: Bertrand de Jouvenel
26 Oct 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. Bertrand de Jouvenel – “arbitrary Power, swept on by the passions of the mob and swayed by the ardours of the holders of office, lacking both rule […]
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Love of God & Love of Country
04 Jul 2018
I suffer no illusion what I’m saying is new or original, but sometimes truths must be repeated in new words or modes. It is why we roll down the windows on the highway, crank up the radio, and scream like idiots when particular chords are strummed. It is why we set aside at least one […]
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Barr & Bee Boorish, Should Both Bear Blame
01 Jun 2018
Rosanne Barr, the comedienne, was fresh off the announcement her resurrected show, Roseanne, had been renewed for a second season. She traveled from obscurity to oblivion and back again when ABC decided to try a rebooted version of her once popular sitcom. It was something of a ratings smash, which necessitated the renewal. The perception, […]
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School Shootings: An Unthinkable Numbness
22 May 2018
Another week, another school shooting. Let me see, let me see. Man, I need to organize my digital files better. Got it. “School Shooting Template.” Is it 8 dead? 10? 20? Did the shooter die or is he in custody? What weapons did he use? Are there tragic stories of those cut down in the […]
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Sports Gambling is On the Way
16 May 2018
Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death continues to be prophetic. Back in the 1980s, the scribe argued America’s transition away from a print-based culture and toward an image-based culture was redefining our communication. Our modes of interaction, especially in news, politics, education, and religion, are more suited for amusement than argument, discernment, or reflection. In his […]
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One of the hidden-from-view debates going on among intellectuals and elites is the idea of the Universal Basic Income (UBI). The basic idea is let’s get rid of all welfare programs, and give everybody a check of some minimum amount that would meet the essentials of life. You could have it baked into the tax […]
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