This is a claim I make to our principles students in the first part of our economics class, as I reflect on the economic way of thinking, a discussion topic fairly standard in more textbooks. Essentially, the economic way of thinking forces one to fully consider all costs and all benefits of any choice. In […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 29
10 Jun 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. Q: Daniel asks: “Thoughts regarding the recent revelations surrounding Martin Luther King Jr.? How do we reconcile revelations like this regarding people, who […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 27
20 May 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. Ready for some behind the scenes? I, as a duly ordained contributor to this blog, get to see which posts are upcoming/in the […]
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Can’t we all get along? Part V
15 May 2019
When I was younger, one of the popular songs was “We just Disagree” by Dave Mason. The refrain was, “there ain’t no good guy, there ain’t no bad guy, there’s only you and me and we just disagree.” In our current cultural moment, many want to dial down the rhetoric by having us effectively sing […]
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Can’t we all get along, part IV
03 May 2019
Life with people is always a bit weird; we’re often selfish, crotchety, moody and ungrateful. Yet we’re also sometimes kind and giving and thoughtful and even fun. Aah…the people we get to do life with. Sometimes we think about some of our family and friends, when they’ve done something particularly crazy, and ask “what were […]
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Can’t we all get along. An excursion.
02 May 2019
Sorry for a short detour, but Ben made a comment in our previous thread that is worthy of a standalone response in this series. Basically he is concerned that the tone of our contesting of truth is not loving at all, and makes those on the other side feel that they are enemies. As Ben […]
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Can’t we all get along. Part Three
30 Apr 2019
I was recently reading about a Christian in another country, who was in trouble with the authorities because of his pretty much “Thus-sayeth-the-Lord” condemnation of a political authority for that leader’s illicit sexual ethic. This obviously begs the question, was that a wise way to try to be a positive influence in culture? Further, was […]
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Can we all get along? Part Two.
27 Apr 2019
This is an elaboration of my eight points from the previous post. But the broader purpose of this short series is to identify why I think we should not seek solace that there is some middle ground that reasonable people are ultimately going to arrive at. I believe that there is a broader underlying spiritual […]
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Can we all get along?
23 Apr 2019
So said Rodney King after the carnage of the race-related LA Riots in 1992 after the acquittal of police officers that had brutally handled his arrest. Scenes of a white trucker being pulled from his truck to be even more brutally beaten by angry young black men repulsed the world. Surely this reaction was even […]
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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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