I love watching a good movie or TV show. While not overly creative myself, I thoroughly enjoy taking in someone else’s work of art to gain a greater understanding of his or her perspective, and these two mediums are amongst my favorite. My wife would readily tell you that I often think deeply about the […]
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Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen
23 May 2023
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This past week, dear reader, you may have noticed the kerfuffle in the news about Simone Biles, especially if you’ve been following the Tokyo Olympics. Biles, a many-time national and world champion gymnast from Columbus, Ohio, has set enough new marks of excellence for American gymnasts that some pre-Olympics commentary mentioned her as the greatest […]
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Eric Voegelin, Basketball, and the Gospel
01 Aug 2020
The works of Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) are the most challenging and rewarding of any philosophical studies I’ve ever confronted. For those of you wondering why Voegelin wasn’t profiled in my short-lived first run at a Weekly Sage column, my answer would be that his contributions to thought and literature earned much more than a single […]
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Weekly Sage #26: James Burnham
03 May 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. James Burnham “The situation with Marxist ideology is the same as that with the leading capitalist ideologies. As we saw in connection with the latter, however, the […]
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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 #21: Francois Rabelais
29 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. Francois Rabelais “Summarily exposing to you about this year what I’ve been able to extract from the authors in the field, Arab and Latin, we shall begin […]
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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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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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