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” together. […]

This past Thursday Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC)’s Office released House Resolution 109 “Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal”. According to the Resolution’s preamble many, if not all, contemporary socio-economic problems (insufficient provision of basic needs, wage stagnation, racial injustice, and a threat to national security, etc.) are caused or […]

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 was watching the last VLOG, and, right towards the end, Dr. Wheeler mentioned that he would probably rebel against government much more […]

Its hard in my flesh not to smile at the ongoing self-destruction in the Democratic party in Virginia. I’ve long considered identity politics highly destructive to our country–essentially the Democratic Party has embraced as an organizing principle what the Federalist Papers warned as a serious danger, that of faction. And as that tendency toward faction […]

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” together. […]

When I accepted a Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship to study in Australia, I did not know exactly what to expect, having no experience with the land of kangaroos and koalas, nor any graduate-level training in history. The wonderful experience has brought many surprises, on which I will perhaps write more someday, but two of the most […]

2019 marks the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the conquest of Mexico by the Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés. Cortés displayed tremendous daring, resilience, and skill in the overthrow of a powerful civilization in such a short time with but a relative handful of men, but his legacy is ambiguous. He broke the […]

The idea of loving a political enemy feels foreign and out of place, but so did the entry of the God-Man into our Creator’s narrative. Like putting the king of kings in a manger and surrounding him with shepherds, loving those who oppose us, and who work feverishly to defeat us, seems like a recipe […]

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.   A friend was talking with me the other day, and he brought up the fact that you really never really know what’s going […]

Is this issue about race, or is it really all about politics and power? Certainly for the Democratic party, where Gov Ralph Northam is being pressured by the Democrats for an offensive photo from his law school yearbook of the 1980s, its hard to tell. I suspect Mr. Northam will be on his way soon, […]