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 #24: Michael Polanyi
19 Apr 2019
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More on Socialism and Democrats
18 Apr 2019
Tuesday night during my introduction at our Freedom to Flourish event, The Christian Imperative for Entrepreneurship, I pointed out why defense of free markets is still such a relevant task today. I suggested that given one of our major political parties is having an identity crisis over whether it should support socialism makes this a great issue to think about. […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 23
15 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. Before we begin, I’d just like to say A+ on the comments section last week. Maybe that’s an odd thing to congratulate, but […]
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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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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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