Faith • Liturgical Reflections Seeing Calvary in “Calvary” Dr. Steven Garber | 5 min read “Do not despair; one of the thieves was saved. Do not presume; one of the thieves was damned.” — St. Augustine These words from St. Augustine are meant for our... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture Impressing Strangers: Social Media, a Rich Man, and Jesus Rev. Joe Palekas | 9 min read In September of 2021, the New Yorker published an essay titled, “On the Internet, We’re Always Famous.” The essayist, Chris Hayes, argues that our fundamental human desire is the desire... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations “Goodbye Lenin!” and the Failure of the Marxist Vision Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read “Workers of the world unite— all you have to lose are your chains!” The terrible irony of Marx’s challenge to the 19th-century is that wherever his revolution went, workers were... Continue Reading
Uncategorized The Questions We Ask Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read Intrinsic, not extrinsic. Somewhere in the American Southwest, I began to understand an idea that has run through my life for most of my life. A year earlier I had... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture East Harlem: A Theology Close to Home Justin Adour | 13 min read In 2019 my wife and I worked with a team to start a new church in East Harlem. “I work on Wall Street. Will this church plant be a place... Continue Reading
Faith • Theological Reflections Radical Unity: Against Protestant Consumerism and the Spirit of Schism Albert Lee | 10 min read If you belong to a local church, I wonder if you’ve felt the way that I have recently. Maybe you feel like those in church leadership agree with you on... Continue Reading