Culture • Current Conversations Technology and Spiritual Formation Rev. Matt Lietzen | 13 min read In their 2019 book Faith for Exiles, David Kinnaman and Mark Matlock released some data on the consumption of screen media in the lives of “digital natives,” individuals between the ages of 15-23. They found that the average digital native consumes 2,767 hours of screen media each year, the equivalent of 115 days of nonstop... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Pilgrims We Are: The Best Stories Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read Pilgrims we are. The stories of my life are always a story of journey, of people on pilgrimage from here to there, from one place to the next. The most ancient story we know is that story, beginning in a garden and ending in a city, and the best stories are one more version of... Continue Reading
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... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Not a Typical Love Affair Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read “Do you read Camus?” I love film, but it is hard to find films that I want to watch. Even with almost boundless choices, Netflix, iTunes, Amazon Prime and more— including the local theaters —I can look and look, and still not find what I’m looking for. I want the story to be about things... Continue Reading
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... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Loving Your Neighbor 101 Tanner Metzko | 3 min read After years of barbarianism and violence in the Promised Land, we finally see a glimpse of hope in the Book of Ruth. If the world had more people like Ruth and Boaz, it might be a better place today. Ruth fled the protection of her clan in Bethlehem and clung to Naomi, certainly not for... Continue Reading
