On the 46th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the New York legislature expanded abortion rights in the state. The action was met with applause. We do not dwell often on abortion here at Bereans@TheGate. That is probably to our detriment. In some ways, the issue feels out of hand since it is now more a […]

“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 […]

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.   I have to start out this week by recommending a piece of classical music: Samson and Delilah Act 2 by Saint-Saens. Even if opera isn’t […]

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” […]

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): […]

***This is Part 3 of a series of articles on the necessity of Christian Love in the Political Arena. Here are links to Part 1 and Part 2.*** Who Do You Love? A Dispatch from the Culture War Shane Windmeyer is the executive director of Campus Pride, an LGBTQ organization that focuses on rights for […]

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 took long enough, but it appears that winter has officially gotten with the whole “snow” business, and, depending on where you […]

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 […]

***This is Part 2 of a series of articles on the necessity of Christian Love in the Political Arena. Part 1 is here.*** Enemies? Love Them So, we find ourselves in a social and political environment that fosters not merely disagreement, but fighting. We are in a mood that demands not contests, but wars. Since […]

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 […]