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Liturgical Reflections

Gary Black on Why “Silence” Matters at Christmas

Dr. Steven Garber | 8 min read

Now, but not yet. Everyone everywhere, sons of Adam and daughters of Eve that we are, sees the same world, and tries to make sense. We don’t have to be philosophers to do that; in fact sometimes philosophers miss it badly. What is required is that we be human beings— ordinary men and women who...

Vocation • Finding Your Vocation

On Murder Mysteries and the Meaning of Vocation Too

Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read

Reading a mystery? For class? Seriously? This is the second week for the Capital Fellows, the graduate seminar I teach every Monday morning through the fall, September to December, and the first book I had them read was Dorothy Sayers’ Whose Body? one of the wonderfully complex stories of Lord Peter Wimsey, the very amazing...

Culture • Popular Culture

To Fly, Fly Away….

Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read

“You must live in the place that is the station of your labor and your love. Down there in the swaying forests, the dark sleeping fields, the cold barren lands, and the cities of man, where the indestructible, the faithful, the true are needed.” Several weeks ago when I began packing for Central Europe, I...

Culture • Popular Culture

Who Are We, Anyway?

Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read

“What are the Japanese peasants looking for in me? These people who live and work and die like beasts find for the first time in our teaching a path in which they can cast away the fetters that bind them…. for a long time they have lived in resignation to such a fate.” The Washington...

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