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.   Ah, 2019…..feels a lot like 2018 to be honest, but it’s good to back. I don’t have much to say for an introduction […]

Almost every year faculty get some list of what today’s students never knew about, such as Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton are ancient history. Some likely don’t know about the presidency of George H.W. Bush, other than perhaps a vague knowledge that he was George W. Bush’s father and an earlier president, and none remember […]

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.   John of Salisbury –          “I have seen during my time numerous men meddling with sacred offices and rashly setting them upon their shoulders…I have seen others […]

Donald Trump’s presidency is about far more than mid-term elections or the various candidates jockeying to defeat him in 2020. His presence is defining the Republican Party. The lingering question is the degree to which his legacy will be lasting. This week we saw two Republican responses to Donald Trump. They present two paths forward, […]

Paul Schrader’s career has been an ongoing argument between his inherited faith and his evolving sensibilities. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Schrader grew up in the Dutch Reformed branch of Protestantism, which exercised a dramatic influence on the region, his family, and, for a time, Schrader himself. He attended Calvin College, an intellectual center 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.   Folks, it has been an absolute joy to be your metaphysical mailman for the latter half of this year, and I relish the […]

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.   Edmund Burke –          “a Power which refuses to be limited by its own moderation, must either be lost or find more distinct and satisfactory Limitations.”[1] –          […]

***This is Part 1 of a series of articles on the necessity of Christian Love in the Political Arena.*** “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be […]

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, as one of the questioners in today’s mailbag put it: The flow of events in the Commonwealth continues to create cause for pondering.  […]

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.   Lionel Robbins –          “It has always been the areas of relatively great productive power which have produced the great cultures. There is nothing in history which […]