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 #22: John Dos Passos
05 Apr 2019
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The Democratic Party: Let’s take ’em down!?
05 Apr 2019
Over in the WSJ this morning, Peggy Noonan encourages Joe Biden not to run, as the new Democrats will try to destroy him. I think she is mostly spot on, but it’s this diagnosis of the new Democrats that is worth discussing. A few years ago, Dr. White asked us Bereans if a Christian could […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 21
01 Apr 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, last week I said my March Madness bracket was doing pretty well on the whole. Oh how I forgot the ides of […]
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The Mueller Report: Everybody Loses
25 Mar 2019
Attorney General Bill Barr released a letter to Congress that highlights the key findings of the Mueller report. Barr’s summary has several elements. First, he details the scope of the investigation, which was dramatic. Second, Barr portrays Mueller’s findings on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, which were significant and unprecedented. Third, Barr says […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 20
25 Mar 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, well, well. Guess what folks? After two long years, the Mueller report is here, annnnnd….we got nothing. Shocker, I know. The President […]
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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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Emergency Vote Shows GOP’s Corruption
18 Mar 2019
A 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle only achieves verisimilitude when it is complete and from a distance. When a piece falls out of place, or you creep close enough for the lines to emerge, the illusion fades. What was an idyllic meadow, or famed work of art, is now a jagged approximation. The political system works […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 19
18 Mar 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 was talking with a friend this week about Star Wars, and we came to the obvious conclusion that John Williams’s music is […]
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Weekly Sage #19: Irving Fisher
15 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. Irving Fisher “We have seen that all wealth and property imply prospective services or ‘desirable events.’ It is the desirability of these future expected services which gives […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 17
04 Mar 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. Not to flatter any of you, but y’all ask some mighty fine questions on a regular basis. Take a second to pat yourselves […]
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