Culture • Popular Culture Stories and the Moral Imagination Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read “The play’s the thing to catch the conscience of the king.” Shakespeare’s insight into the meaning of stories still instructs, teaching generations something important about “the call of stories” and... Continue Reading
Vocation • Finding Your Vocation Early We Receive a Call Adam Joyce | 3 min read “Early we receive a call, yet it remains incomprehensible, and only late do we discover how obedient we were.” -Czeslaw Milosz Vocation is about confessing what is true about God,... Continue Reading
Vocation • On Daily Work An Interview with Eldon Stoffel Adam Joyce | 5 min read Eldon Stoffel is a painter who lives in the Washington, D.C. area. TWI: How have you developed your own sense of calling and theological language for your work? Are there... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Implicated in the Way the World Turns Out, for Love’s Sake Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read “Just pondering, huh?” Sitting on the deck, looking out at the little woods in which we live, I was. Meg smiled, and assured me that it was okay, and I... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations “Love Conquers All”– On Porn and More Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read “Love conquers all.” Three words in a longer sentence, and an even longer paragraph and story. The words are about porn, for short; about the problem of pornography and the... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture “Call the Midwife” — Not Ordinary Television Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read “What I saw as a calling, perhaps it was only a dreadful mishearing.” Not ordinary language on television, at all. But “Call the Midwife” is not ordinary television. Rather, words... Continue Reading