Culture • Christianity & Culture Head and Heart and Hands Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read “In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.” From C.S. Lewis in The Abolition of Man,... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Unconnected in a World of Digital Connections – Part 3: Trinity, Idolatry, Twitter, and Facebook Lee Marcum | 4 min read In the current blog series on communication technologies, we have sought to bring attention to the way in which the specific form of communication influences both the content and user. This is to say that when technology is used as a medium of communication, it exhibits biases that have consequences for the nature of communication.... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Remarkable Joy, Remarkable Sorrow Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read Sadness and joy. Sometimes we read something, and it simply jumps off of the page. Most of 20 years ago I began reading the Lenten meditations of N.T. Wright, and these words caught my heart. “We discover that the story of Jesus’ ministry is not only the story of what he did in history, but... Continue Reading
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 • Christianity & Culture Over the Shoulder, Through the Heart Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read Over the shoulder, through the heart. For most of my life I have thought about the ways we learn, about the ways we are formed as human beings, our habits of heart shaping who we are, and who we are shaping what we do. This past weekend I watched this very closely, drawn in as... Continue Reading
Vocation • Finding Your Vocation A Worldview, a Mentor, a Community Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read A worldview, a mentor, a community. Nothing magic here, but these habits of heart have been running through my mind for a long time. In my thirties I began wondering “why some people keep on keeping on, and why others don’t?” Loving my students as I did, this plagued me, and I eventually spent ten... Continue Reading
