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 […]

Well, this week, they both spouted off nonsense, and while one was ridiculed, the other was taken seriously.  Mr. Curry, for some unknown reason, decided to opine that the moon landing was fake–a product of Hollywood fantasy.  For those of us that have had the privilege of hearing from Astronauts that landed on the moon, […]

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Ethan Brand,” the title character undertakes a quest for the Unpardonable Sin; but the story does not simply follow the Scriptural definition of this sin: blasphemy against the Holy Spirit (Matthew 12:31-32; Mark 3:28-29; Luke 12:10). Hawthorne’s Brand defines the Unpardonable Sin in terms of a separation of the intellect and the […]