Matthew Teague

2 months ago | popularwoodworking.com | Matthew Teague

An angular front and glass doors lend visual interest to this classic Krenov design. Through the early stages of my woodworking, when I was sweating away evenings in a Mississippi basement trying to learn the craft using a $99 table saw and an $18 block plane, I devoured the books of James Krenov. They represented an artistic, if idealized, approach to a hands-on craft that appealed to an angst-filled editor and writer in his 20s. Even if I wasn’t up to the tasks, I knew my aim. Then life took over.

Dec 1, 2023 | airmail.news | Matthew Teague

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta The peculiar potency of American evangelicalism came home to me about nine years ago, in a one-two-punch combination. In 2014 my wife died young, of cancer; during her illness and afterward, the people of our church in Alabama rescued us daily. They fed our girls, propped me up, and carried us on a tide of love. They saved us. This, I thought, is true Christ-likeness.

Oct 25, 2023 | nationalgeographic.com | Matthew Teague

In the spring of 2021 at Syracuse University, senior Ryan Brady finished his final project as an advertising major: a marketing campaign for shampoo. The bottle had a pleasing shape. The campaign had Gen Z appeal. A Fortune 100 client selected his ad strategy. But it was “complete nonsense,” he says. Not just the shampoo, but everything it represented: superficial, manipulative work. A life of consumption and extraction. An empty life. A modern life.

Aug 26, 2023 | practicesource.com | Matthew Teague

If we going to have to read about this endlessly let’s at least choose wiselyCo-Author of The Steal on the “Remarkable Document” , Matthew TeagueA grand jury in Atlanta has handed up an indictment accusing former President Donald Trump and 18 allies of trying to overthrow Trump’s loss in the last presidential election. It’s a remarkable document.

Aug 25, 2023 | unherd.com | Matthew Teague

Coffee County, GeorgiaCoffee County, Georgia, seems an unlikely setting for espionage. It sits far from the intrigues of Washington, far from the coming politico-criminal trials in Atlanta. Far, in a sense, from anywhere. Like what you’re reading? Get the free UnHerd daily email Already registered? Sign inAs they jetted in in January 2021, the team working on Trump’s behalf might have noticed the openness — the emptiness — of the landscape: now the gold of hay fields, now the green of peanuts.