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. Hannah Arendt “The philistine’s retirement into private life, his single-minded devotion to matters of family and career was the last, and already degenerated product of the bourgeoisie’s […]
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Weekly Sage #16: Hannah Arendt
22 Feb 2019
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Weekly Sage #12: Frank Knight – Chicago School
25 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. 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” […]
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The Greatest Economic Fallacy?
18 Jan 2019
Recently I had a nice discussion with an uber driver, and upon learning that I was an economic professor he asked me why I enjoyed teaching economics. I suggested that exploding economic fallacies is perhaps the most fun part of my job, since as Ronald Reagan used to quote (I think from Mark Twain originally): […]
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Weekly Sage #10: Alexander Pope
11 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. Alexander Pope – “Go, wiser thou! And in thy scale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against providence; Call imperfection what thou fancy’st such, Say, here he gives […]
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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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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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Weekly Sage #4: Wilhelm Ropke
16 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. 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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The Mailbag! – Vol. 3
12 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. My guess is that everyone is a little angsty after the midterms, seeing as no one really got the result they wanted. But, […]
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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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A Modest Response on Immigration
23 Jan 2018
I appreciated my Berans colleague Bert Wheeler’s post on immigration. But I would like to offer an alternative viewpoint that does not totally disagree with his. I understand that Dr. Wheeler is not suggesting a “no borders” policy. Nor does he deny the necessity to screen criminals or potential terrorists. He also does agree with […]
Bert Wheeler
Jeff Haymond
Marc Clauson
Mark Caleb Smith
Tom Mach