Faith • Liturgical Reflections Hope for a Hopeless World Todd Mangum | 5 min read The hope that Jesus Christ offers does not dispute or deny the current circumstances of hopelessness, discouragement, and death. But that baby represented not just an announcement from God, but the entry of very God into the situation and circumstance of sin. Continue Reading
Faith • Liturgical Reflections Presence, at Advent Belinda Bauman | 5 min read Whatever the state of your Bethlehem—whether your vocation is soaring or struggling, your family or social life is hectic or harmonious, or your soul is at peace or feels piecemeal—God offers his greatest gift to you too. Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Love Has Become Lost in Lust Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read What cabbage leaf have you been living under, Tom Wolfe? When I Am Charlotte Simmons was published in 2004, the major papers reviewed it, as they always do for the... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Ferguson, and More Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read DWB. For years I drove out of the city of Washington several times a week, along the highway past the Pentagon into Virginia, and would see black men stopped along... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Of What We Do and Why We Do It Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read Long the question after a night at the movies, I asked Meg, “Well, what did you think?” We talked for a while, back and forth, and eventually I said that... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture De Profundis Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read “But do not tell me all is fine.” For the last few days I have been thinking about this next week, and a lecture I am giving at Montreat College... Continue Reading