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.     Q: Göran Magnus asks: “As we enter yet another winter season, we find families huddled around the fire and the dinner table. A […]

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” So begins the classic line from Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities.  Dickens continues with contrasts such as “it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,” which only adds to the feeling of simultaneous joy and heartache.  Such is […]

George H.W. Bush (1924-2018) died this weekend. The scion of a prominent political family—his father, Prescott, was a U.S. Senator from Connecticut—President Bush built the family into a political dynasty. Bush served as an aviator in the United States Navy, and as a member of the United States House of Representatives, Ambassador to the United […]

Why and in what ways do people decide to read a certain book?  It might be a recommendation from a friend, written by an acclaimed author, or even an attention-grabbing book cover.  In my case, it was an intriguing title – and a little help from my librarian- wife, who brought home the book What […]

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. Tacitus –          “My policy is to trace proposals in detail only if conspicuously honorable or of noteworthy disgrace, for in my view the principle obligation of histories […]

November 30, 2018: Today is Sir Winston S. Churchill’s 144th birthday, a day for remembering. Churchill has been gone for 53 years. Yet, because of a recent surge of film and television treatments, most notably Darkest Hour (2017), in which he was brilliantly portrayed by Gary Oldman—as well as kerfuffles on Twitter about the legitimacy […]

Daredevil Season 3 Review: Faith and Forgiveness – An Honest Look at a World Where Religion is Real Warning: This review contains minor spoilers below.  While TV shows that embrace Christian values may be rare today, those that confront and articulate Christian themes are almost non-existent. If explicitly identified Christians appear on the screen, they […]

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.     We’ll have a much shorter mailbag this week seeing as the food-induced comatose of that blessed holiday we call Thanksgiving is only […]

The index of stock market volatility (one measure of market fear) has risen in the past week, concurrent with large absolute point swings (although relatively low on a percentage basis).  Markets are not as volatile as they were in October, but clearly there are uncertain times ahead, and markets generally like certainty.  There are so […]

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 get going, I should make mention of Dr. Smith’s recently published “Zounds!” article, seeing as it evoked violent full-body convulsions from […]