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 […]

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. Francois Rabelais “Summarily exposing to you about this year what I’ve been able to extract from the authors in the field, Arab and Latin, we shall begin […]

Dr. Smith once again showed why he is the leading Berean light with his recent series on loving your enemies–how do we engage in the public sphere while honoring Christ? As usual, he is hitting the key question which Christians should be wrestling with. His honest reflection is one that challenges and inspires us to […]

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 landed with a splash over the weekend causing widespread frenzy in the hallowed halls of MSNBC and general relief for the rest of the country. Rep. […]

The Bereans discuss the Mueller Report and its ramifications in their latest video blog.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Yesterday I was teaching on money in macroeconomics, and we discussed how the Fed influences the whole complex of interest rates. That naturally led to the question, how does the Fed “know” what the right level of reserves are, what the correct Fed funds rate should be, etc. What we know for sure is that […]

Part I is here: http://bereansatthegate.com/churchill-on-collectivism-and-the-limits-of-politics-part-i/   Winston Churchill was an outspoken critic of Communism as well as the milder Socialism that was a political force in Britain. He understood the difficulties presented by human nature for these political doctrines in a non-academic, wonderfully common sense way: human nature being what it is, Communism and Socialism are […]