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Faith • Theological Reflections

The Ordering of Our Loves

Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read

Ordo Caritatis. Some words and ideas are worth holding onto, especially ones that take us to deeper places of the heart, that ask us harder questions of the heart— and even more, ones that offer the hope that all is not lost, and that our fragmented selves can be reordered, that we can be made...

Culture • Current Conversations

Even Proximate Justice Is Hard to Find

Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read

Proximate justice, one more time. I walked into a familiar classroom this morning, one where I spent many hours over many years. And as I prepared to begin, I saw an essay I had written some years ago, “Making Peace with Proximate Justice” on the desks in the room filled with students from all over...

Vocation • Visions of Vocation

Entrepreneurial Imagination, Entrepreneurial Vocation

Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read

“But why does responsibility matter so much? What if we just imagine ourselves as responsible– isn’t that the same?” Last night a group of folks from across Seattle met at the invitation of Veritas Cities to think about “Designing Experiences for the Common Good.” I spoke for awhile, then interviewed my friend Uli Chi, Chairman...

Faith • Biblical Reflections

Missio on Joseph: The Common Good is the Greater Good

Patrick Pierson | 5 min read

As this week’s passage picks up the story of Joseph in Genesis 41, we come across a young man – a mere 30 years old at this point – who has reached a position of power and prominence in one of the most powerful kingdoms of the world. What may appear as a stroke of...

Faith • Biblical Reflections

Missio on Joseph: From Punk to Pillar

Rev. Dr. Bill Fullilove | 3 min read

A spoiled little brat tattletales on his brothers, and they hate him for it. Anyone could have seen that coming in Genesis 37. Of course, the response of Joseph’s brothers is rather severe: they try to kill him, only belatedly settling for selling him into slavery. Poisoned family relationships in the ultimate dysfunctional environment. As...

Culture • Current Conversations

The Emperor’s New Clothes, One More Time

Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read

Most of life is pretty autobiographical. What we think about, what we do, where we live, why we care about some things and not others, and on and on; in thousands upon thousands of ways what we think and say and do grows out of who we are. This is as true for me as...

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