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, the title is pretty much the post for the week, and you’ll notice the lack of an exclamation mark in the title […]

As a Fulbright scholar recently returned from 9 months studying Australian politics, I eagerly awaited the results of this past Saturday’s federal election down under. (By the way, Australians think weekend elections are one of the many improvements they made to representative government which the United States ignores to its own harm.)  Before the election, […]

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 […]

The Bullington Diatribe Chronicles will run occasionally for the amusement of some, the facepalming of many others, and the inconvenience of all. The following is satire….obviously. The Mueller report has continued to drop and bounce around for the past couple of weeks, much like one of those super bouncy-balls mom and dad used to get […]

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 […]

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, summer is just about underway for me. Grad classes are ending, the sun is shining longer, and the festivities are beginning once […]

Over a year ago, I found myself amidst a crowd strolling through the streets of Brussels mid-winter, only to stop suddenly in a square. A man was playing the violin, and a large group of people had gathered to listen. As I stood there observing, many in the crowd were gently cooing and discussing the […]

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, it’s just three questions this week, but that’s more by choice than necessity as two of these turned into small essays on […]

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 […]

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. James Burnham “The situation with Marxist ideology is the same as that with the leading capitalist ideologies. As we saw in connection with the latter, however, the […]