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. Bertrand de Jouvenel – “arbitrary Power, swept on by the passions of the mob and swayed by the ardours of the holders of office, lacking both rule […]
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The Weekly Sage: Bertrand de Jouvenel
26 Oct 2018
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God’s Whispers in The Wind in the Willows
24 Oct 2018
“All great stories are about longing,” a friend recently said to me. I immediately thought of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, the classic book about the adventures of four animal friends: Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad. Grahame’s tale is beautifully wrought, not only in richness of language, but in calling forth what […]
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See the website plug-in to view our most recent VLOG, where the Bereans address an important question: to what degree is the GOP now the party of Donald Trump? See what you think and leave comments below.
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Trump enemy #1: The Fed?
22 Oct 2018
“I think the Fed is making a mistake. They are so tight. I think the Fed has gone crazy,” the president said after walking off Air Force One in Erie, Pennsylvania for a rally. Mr. Trump called the Federal Reserve his biggest threat last week, as the Fed continues its path toward interest rate normalization. […]
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Mid-term elections are typically rough for the President’s party. Below are some figures that simply lay out results in mid-terms between 1946 and 2014. The first figure looks at results in the U.S. House. Some things jump out quickly. There is a significant amount of variability, but nearly all of it is in negative territory. […]
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Trump and Trade: Bereans VLOG (10/15/2018)
17 Oct 2018
Our latest VLOG is up and ready to view in the site’s plug-in. Also, you can subscribe to our channel on YouTube if that makes viewing the videos simpler. Please leave any comments below.
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Hat Tip to David French over at National Review. But its worth listing here too. You probably have heard that Mrs. Clinton says Democrats shouldn’t be civil to Republicans, since they (R’s) are trying to destroy everything that D’s believe in. Eric Holder, in a campaign rally, suggested Mrs. Obama’s famous call, “they go low, […]
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I was asked a few posts ago if Mr. Trump could do anything right economically that we’d agree with. Well, Mr. Trump continues to make it hard, because he constantly proves the point he’s in favor of business, not markets in general. Going into election 2018, Mr. Trump feels the need to help protect Republican […]
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Kavanaugh Part 3: Bereans VLOG (10/8/2018)
09 Oct 2018
Greetings! We have what we think is a final vlog on Brett Kavanaugh’s SCOTUS nomination. Today we discuss the cultural implications of the nomination and a few other tidbits. As always, leave questions below and see the actual video in the site plug-in.
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Jeff Flake, Republican Senator from Arizona, was once again the man of the moment, as he has often been during the past two years. One of the most persistent Trump critics in the upper chamber, Flake has become a celebrity of sorts, and sometimes a media darling. All that vanished last week when he became […]