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. Another week, another round of spicy questions and burning inquiries. To the action, then. Q: Charles asks: “What do you think has a […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 13
28 Jan 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 God of Tarzan
23 Jan 2019
“The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.” –Psalm 14:2 – While Tarzan of the Apes is perhaps not the first literary character one would associate with theological questions, one of the stories Edgar Rice Burroughs penned about the jungle hero deals […]
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Weekly Sage #11: Jacob Viner – Chicago School
18 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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Did Alexander the Great Visit Jerusalem?
09 Jan 2019
Despite the tremendous number of studies and biographies of Alexander the Great, his life is difficult to reconstruct historically. Of the sources we possess, not one was written in his lifetime. All of the reports we have of this remarkable man and his extraordinary achievements were penned three hundred years or more after the events […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 9
24 Dec 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. Folks, it has been an absolute joy to be your metaphysical mailman for the latter half of this year, and I relish the […]
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In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Ethan Brand,” the title character undertakes a quest for the Unpardonable Sin; but the story does not simply follow the Scriptural definition of this sin: blasphemy against the Holy Spirit (Matthew 12:31-32; Mark 3:28-29; Luke 12:10). Hawthorne’s Brand defines the Unpardonable Sin in terms of a separation of the intellect and the […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 7
10 Dec 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. Before we get going on today’s mailbag, I have to note the name length of our first questioner, who took it upon himself […]
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