by Jefrey D. Breshears | Aug 24, 2021 | Articles
Last week I wrote an essay on our Areopagus Facebook page and website entitled “Don’t Trust Anyone’s Judgement Who Didn’t See This Coming” that began with this warning: Here is a simple lesson in prudential judgment: Don’t trust anyone’s judgement on any political,...
by Jefrey D. Breshears | Aug 20, 2021 | Articles
Friends, See the link below related to Megan McCain’s recent criticism of Joe Biden’s Afghanistan policy. Here is a simple lesson in prudential judgment: Do not trust anyone’s judgement on any political, social, cultural, or moral issue of our day who was too...
by Jefrey D. Breshears | Dec 10, 2020 | Articles
In keeping with the old Chinese curse, “May you live in ‘interesting’ times,” this has certainly been an ‘interesting’ year. In fact, it has been in many respects a ‘perfect storm’ marked by an unprecedented degree of domestic chaos, dysfunction and disruption as...
by Jefrey D. Breshears | Nov 10, 2020 | Articles
Reflections on the Elections Part 2 Jefrey Breshears As Christians, our primary calling in life is to follow Jesus’ admonitions to “seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness” and “love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength,…...
by Jefrey D. Breshears | Oct 11, 2020 | Articles
Political Priorities, Personalities and Policies The Most Consequential Election Since 1860 – And the Choice Could Not Be Clearer by Jefrey Breshears Those who endured the first presidential “debate” (or more accurately, “brawl”) of 2020 on September 30th witnessed...
by Jefrey D. Breshears | Oct 4, 2020 | Articles
Democrats and Republicans: What’s the Difference? Jefrey Breshears Current Political Realities For the first twenty years of my adult life I sought to be as nonpartisan as possible, realizing that neither party is ideal. But the Democratic Party of the last fifty...