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 […]

***This review is mostly spoiler-free, but its themes might lead to broad conclusions by the reader. Nothing of the Endgame plot is revealed and no answers to the questions leftover from Infinity War are revealed.*** I drove two daughters and two of their friends to an 11:00 p.m., Thursday night showing of Avengers: Endgame. On […]

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. Mario Vargas Llosa “’No such luck. There aren’t any thugs abroad, what with this cold,’ Shorty said, rubbing his hands together again. ‘The only madmen out tonight […]

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 […]

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.   Perhaps this isn’t a great excuse, but I have gone through quite a bout of travel in recent days, hence the lack of […]

The Mueller Report was finally released Thursday and it will do little to change anyone’s mind about Donald Trump or American politics. This is a testament to our current discourse, which is one part tribalism and one part laziness. The tribalism, of course, is all about defending or attacking “our guy” or “their guy.” Facts […]

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 […]

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. […]

I avoid cable television news as much as possible. On this day, I just had to watch. The smoke billowed across the skyline, pouring out of Notre Dame, the most famous cathedral in the world. The roof collapsed and then the spire. The embers glowed into the night. Stunned Parisians responded by singing hymns. I […]

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 […]