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. Mario Vargas Llosa “’No such luck. There aren’t any thugs abroad, what with this cold,’ Shorty said, rubbing his hands together again. ‘The only madmen out tonight […]
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Weekly Sage #25: Mario Vargas Llosa
26 Apr 2019
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Weekly Sage #24: Michael Polanyi
19 Apr 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. Michael Polanyi “I have spoken of our craving for understanding, and have mentioned the intellectual passion which impels us towards making ever closer contact with reality. These […]
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Weekly Sage #23: Jacques Ellul
12 Apr 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. This Weekly Sage was an audience suggestion, so thanks go to Theophilus for the inspiration! Jacques Ellul “In planning it is very difficult to distinguish clearly between […]
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Weekly Sage #22: John Dos Passos
05 Apr 2019
John Dos Passos “’Faith’ is a big word. Lincoln wouldn’t have needed to explain it, but today it has become one of those bugle words that leave an emotional blob in the mind instead of a sharp definition. By ‘faith’ I mean today whatever conviction produces a feeling of participation in a common enterprise. When […]
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Weekly Sage #20: Seneca
22 Mar 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. Seneca the Younger “There is no other life so free, so clean of sin, so respectful of the ways of old, as that which leaves the city […]
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Part I is here: http://bereansatthegate.com/churchill-on-collectivism-and-the-limits-of-politics-part-i/ Winston Churchill was an outspoken critic of Communism as well as the milder Socialism that was a political force in Britain. He understood the difficulties presented by human nature for these political doctrines in a non-academic, wonderfully common sense way: human nature being what it is, Communism and Socialism are […]
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Winston Churchill was an outspoken opponent of Russian Communism from the beginning, not only because he saw it as a threat to the British Empire, although that was true, but because he perceived that its principles were inimical to healthy human society. In 1920, for example, he wrote an article for the Illustrated Sunday Herald […]
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Weekly Sage #18: William James
08 Mar 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. William James “It is not difficult to notice a curious unrest in the philosophic atmosphere of the time, a loosening of old landmarks, a softening of oppositions, […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 15.5
18 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. Well, my friends, I have had a relatively action packed week, and the ole mailbag just got pushed lower and lower on the […]
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Gold, Glory, and God: The Conquest of Mexico
06 Feb 2019
2019 marks the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the conquest of Mexico by the Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés. Cortés displayed tremendous daring, resilience, and skill in the overthrow of a powerful civilization in such a short time with but a relative handful of men, but his legacy is ambiguous. He broke the […]
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