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 […]
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Churchill, History, and Heroism
30 Nov 2018
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Netflix Review: Marvel’s Daredevil – Season 3
29 Nov 2018
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 […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 5
26 Nov 2018
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 […]
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Market Volatility Returns–the end of the Boom?
21 Nov 2018
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 […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 4
19 Nov 2018
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 […]
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Weekly Sage #4: Wilhelm Ropke
16 Nov 2018
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. Wilhelm Ropke – “Economic integration – a network consisting of the division of labor, the mutual exchange of products and the specialization of production, coupled with the […]
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Zounds! Some Changes for Bereans@TheGate
14 Nov 2018
Gentle Readers, Careless Whisperers, and Fellow Traveling Wilburys: You may have noticed things are a bit more lively on the blog these days. Let me mansplain. FIRST–The reanimated corpses of Drs. Wheeler and Clauson have been, well, reanimated. Dr. Haymond and I embarked on an extended expedition. Our task? To discover the precise, semi-final resting places […]
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Servant of the Lender
13 Nov 2018
Proverb 22:7 tells us: “The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.” Most contemporary translations render ébed “slave” as with the ESV here. The predominant translation of ébed in the King James version is “servant”. In Hebrew culture an ébed was commonly a slave, however, given the connotation […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 3
12 Nov 2018
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. My guess is that everyone is a little angsty after the midterms, seeing as no one really got the result they wanted. But, […]
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Post-Election Blues?
11 Nov 2018
This is my first post since last year. I hope to contribute once again in weeks and months ahead. It’s a few days after the “Blue Wave” and I am compelled to say it wasn’t a wave as much as a regular tidal change. While some may be quite discouraged, I don’t see much potential […]