Culture • Current Conversations Unconnected in a World of Digital Connections – Part 2: We made Twitter, but it also makes us… Lee Marcum | 4 min read The average American spends unprecedented amounts of time in front of digital screens each day. The Guardian recently reported that in 2014 one trillion photos were taken across the globe, including an estimated 30 billion selfies. Over the last century, we have developed a comprehension, comfort, and familiarity with the use of technology in everyday... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture The Gospel is a Game Changer Joshua Mathis | 4 min read “Why on earth would you spend so much time doing that?” You may ask, but let me explain. To non-gamers, gamers may seem like people who spend way too much time giving themselves to a fantasy world. From devoting most of their time to playing video games to dressing up as their favorite characters to... Continue Reading
Faith • Liturgical Reflections Lenten Lights Heather Cady | 4 min read This is the eighth reflection in the Missio Lent series. Read the rest here. It is early morning when I head into the living room via the coffee pot in the kitchen. On autopilot, I take a tall mug out of the cupboard. (I like the red or green ones better than the brown.) A long... Continue Reading
Vocation • Visions of Vocation Tacit Touch: Massage as Vocation and Art Maggie Johns | 5 min read “… Some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they begged Jesus to place his hand on him. After he took him aside, away from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers into the man’s ears. Then he spit and touched the man’s tongue.” Mark 7:32-33 (NIV) I was... Continue Reading
Culture • Vocation • On Daily Work Architecture and Design as a Peace-building Practice Tashya Leaman Dalen | 3 min read Every summer, the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) brings together practitioners from around the world interested in augmenting their training in peace and conflict transformation. This year, a new course was offered on architecture and design as a peacebuilding practice taught by Deanna Van Buren, architect, and Barb Toews, practitioner... Continue Reading
Culture • Vocation • Christianity & Culture Being Wrong is Glorious Kate Harrison Brennan | 3 min read A journey through life in which we allow ourselves to ask such questions, and to apprehend beauty, is a journey in which we will learn to be wrong. And learn that being wrong is truly glorious, because it heightens our joy in finding and being found by God, whose beauty is past change. Continue Reading
