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Culture • Christianity & Culture

A Mosaic in the Making: The Indefatigable Hope of Rev. Matthew Anderson, D.D.

Rev. Matt Lietzen | 18 min read

After taking the podium as the Presbyterian Church in America’s (PCA) first African-American Moderator on June 13, 2018, Rev. Dr. Irwyn Ince, Jr. gave a brief speech wherein he shared both his excitement to lead as well as his grief that there were so few models to inspire himself and other Black Presbyterians. “For most...

Faith • Liturgical Reflections

Let Nothing You Dismay: Songs of Hope for Christmas 2020

Rev. Rob Yancey | 5 min read

In a piece titled “2020 broke Christmas music. Here’s what I’m listening to instead,” Michael Brodeur, the classical music critic for the Washington Post wrote this last week: “What if the songs of the season didn’t demand a mass emotional pivot, the obligations of cheer? What if they let in some of the cold? I’ve...

Culture • Christianity & Culture

Culture is Upstream from Politics: 50 Responses

Dr. Steven Garber | 56 min read

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in November of 2016. When I was a boy, my grandfather and I spent summers buying cattle throughout Colorado. Mostly of course, he was the buyer, but there were moments when, with a certain twinkle in his eye, he would let me be the bidder, nudging me to...

Faith • Biblical Reflections

A Poet’s response to a Prophet

Alexis Stanford | 3 min read

A Reflection on Jeremiah 29… At first, when I read this passage, I thought I would attempt to write a thorough essay explaining how I, as an African American women, a product of a divorced parent, in one of the largest urban centers in the United States, feel both daily and keenly as if I...

Faith • Theological Reflections

Shadow and Light

Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read

Shadow and light. Watching the mysterious interplay between the sky and the grass, the trees and the flowers, I found myself thinking about the way shadow and light makes its way through life for every one of us. We live amidst both glories and ruins, all day long having to make sense of the very...

Culture • Christianity & Culture

Where Human Beings Love to Live

Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read

“I choose not to walk by it….” Ashley Marsh, Opelika, Alabama, 21st-century “Having heard all of this, you may choose to look the other way…but you can never again say that you did not know.” William Wilberforce, London, England, 18th-century This past week I was drawn into a wonderful, even if weighty gathering, the Local...

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