Culture • Christianity & Culture Metanarrative and Narrative Dr. Steven Garber | 5 min read Words we live by— metanarrative and narrative. Most of us find it possible to get on with our lives without using those two words every day, if ever. But whether... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Vocation and Choices in “It’s a Wonderful Life” Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read “At crucial moments of choice, most of the business of choosing is already over.” How else do we explain the choice of a boy, amidst the glory of fun with... Continue Reading
Faith • Liturgical Reflections Marley was Dead Dr. Steven Garber | 6 min read “Marley was dead… as dead as a door nail.” With those famous words we enter into one of the best-ever stories, “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens. It is read... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture To Keep on Keeping on Dr. Steven Garber | 5 min read To keep on keeping on. I first remember seeing those words in a “head shop” in Berkeley in the glory days of the counterculture, and they have run through my... Continue Reading
Vocation • Visions of Vocation Seek the Flourishing of the City, Again and Again Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read “Take Idaho” was the way my sister-in-law Kathryn Elliott Stegall put it so very poetically as she mused over our longing to see all things well in the world. But... Continue Reading
Vocation • Visions of Vocation Clowns of God Laura Merzig Fabrycky | 3 min read Like many, many others, I have long loved the work of children’s author and illustrator Tomie De Paola, and particularly how he includes insights into his Italian heritage and his... Continue Reading