Culture • Popular Culture The Seven Basic Plots and the One Basic Plot: Cosper, Booker, and The Stories We Tell Will Herron | 9 min read Being parents of young children, it was a rare occasion (even pre-pandemic!) when my wife and I were able to get out to dinner and a movie. Our last cinema... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Robin Wright’s “Land”: Two Essays Dr. Steven Garber | 7 min read “He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.” These words have been running through my mind the last weeks, thinking through ideas about metanarrative... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture In Praise of a Good Morality Tale: the Simple and the Complex in the Fiction of Elizabeth Goudge Becca Hermes | 11 min read Bibliotherapy. Never heard of it? Neither had I, at least by name, until browsing a lifestyle magazine a few months ago. Perhaps you are familiar with this term. For those... Continue Reading
Vocation • Finding Your Vocation Gently Glowing Bushes: When Your Calling Isn’t Obvious Rev. Bill Haley | 5 min read It’s one of the most common–and paralyzing–questions that Christians ask, “How do I know my vocation?” Many times I’ve talked to folks who are afraid to make a bold move... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations When Darkness is My Closest Friend Randy Newman | 12 min read I’m beginning to write this just a few days before February, the longest month of the year. I know what the number of days on the calendar says and how... Continue Reading
Faith • Biblical Reflections From Kuhn To Christ: Why the Old Testament Matters Rev. Dr. Bill Fullilove | 18 min read I remember seeing the movie The Game, starring Michael Douglas and Sean Penn on an airplane during a business trip in the late 1990s. Michael Douglas plays a financier named... Continue Reading
