Culture • Current Conversations An Appeal for Cultural Humility Jody Wiley Fernando | 6 min read In the wake of a Facebook post that offended many Asian American believers, Jody Wiley Fernando asks whether American majority culture evangelicals can gain not more finely tuned cultural competencies, but rather adopt a posture of cultural humility. Continue Reading
Faith • Biblical Reflections How Shall We Sing the Lord’s Song? John Lamb | 3 min read In 587 B.C. the exiled Hebrew nation sat on the banks of the Euphrates River singing this lament: “By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Proximate Justice, Again and Again Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read Making peace with proximate justice? Several years ago I was asked by a magazine editor to write an essay on the vocation of politics. I thought about it over a... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations An Interview with Five Iron Frenzy’s Micah Ortega Adam Thies | 5 min read Five Iron Frenzy spent eight years making music and capturing the hearts and minds of Christian outsiders: those who felt they didn’t fit with the status quo of their church... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture Exegete Your Failures Adam Joyce | 3 min read “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” –Samuel Beckett I have heard the end of this quote bandied about as an axiom recently, “Fail better.”... Continue Reading
Vocation • Visions of Vocation The Sacramental Character of Our Callings Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read “…God himself will milk the cows through him whose vocation that is. He who engages in the lowliness of his work performs God’s work, be he lad or king…” At... Continue Reading
