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. Sometimes history brings together a special combination of resources and people that form a center of intellectual influence. The Weekly Sage will occasionally consider such “Schools” together. […]
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The Green War Economy
11 Feb 2019
This past Thursday Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC)’s Office released House Resolution 109 “Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal”. According to the Resolution’s preamble many, if not all, contemporary socio-economic problems (insufficient provision of basic needs, wage stagnation, racial injustice, and a threat to national security, etc.) are caused or […]
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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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Weekly Sage #13: George Stigler – Chicago School
01 Feb 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. Sometimes history brings together a special combination of resources and people that form a center of intellectual influence. The Weekly Sage will occasionally consider such “Schools” together. […]
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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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The Mailbag! – Vol. 12
21 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. I have to start out this week by recommending a piece of classical music: Samson and Delilah Act 2 by Saint-Saens. Even if opera isn’t […]
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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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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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The Mailbag! – Vol. 9
24 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. Folks, it has been an absolute joy to be your metaphysical mailman for the latter half of this year, and I relish the […]
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Weekly Sage #7: Lionel Robbins
14 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. Lionel Robbins – “It has always been the areas of relatively great productive power which have produced the great cultures. There is nothing in history which […]