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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

I had the opportunity to meet a young student thinking about the economics major a few days ago, and he mentioned that he hoped to go to the UN to help the poor after graduation with development economics.  We talked about the major, but I suggested he think about how the poor are most likely […]

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. Flannery O’Connor –          “There was something he was searching for, something he felt he must have, some last significant culminating experience that he must make for himself […]

One of the most impressive elements of the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien is its depth. One walks upon the fields of Middle-earth with the awareness that you are treading ancient paths. Indications that this world was in existence long before you discovered it are everywhere: ruined watchtowers of fallen realms, tombs of bygone kings, snippets […]

If you had asked me two years ago, upon Trump’s election to the presidency, I’d have predicted the GOP would get blasted in the midterm elections of 2018. Of course, this has to be put in some context. As I noted in a recent post, we would expect the GOP, in a normal midterm cycle, […]

Tuesday marks the end of the 2018 midterm election cycle. Political scientists hesitate to say things like, “Donald Trump is on the ballot” when he is actually, you know, not on the ballot. We tend to see congressional elections as local affairs, driven more by statewide dynamics than the occupant of the White House. At […]