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Culture • Current Conversations

Unconnected in a World of Digital Connections – Part I

Lee Marcum | 4 min read

Can you imagine a world in which the only means of communication were verbal speech and non-verbal gestures—a world in which there were no alphabetic letters, reading/writing, digital media, or other electronic means of sending messages to people? What effects on one’s communication and everyday life would result from not having such modern communication tools...

Vocation • Visions of Vocation

Seeing Ourselves As Implicated

Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read

“It would’ve been easier to join the garden club.” Not that she has anything against gardens, or clubs, but it was the way Mary Kay Turner explained these last years of her life. We were sitting in the living room of her home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, talking about the complicated mess of the Middle...

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...

Vocation • On Daily Work

Proximate Happiness

Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read

On proximate happiness. Yesterday morning we left Wyoming for Virginia, after spending the night with good friends, the Kirkbrides, whose family have been cattle ranchers for generations in the southeastern corner of the state. For most of life we have been finding our way into their home in Chugwater, with our first children and first...

Culture • Current Conversations

Living In and Stepping Out of Privilege, Part 2

Lindsey Yoder | 5 min read

I wrote last week’s discussion concerning privilege and racial reconciliation with no idea of the events of Wednesday, June 17 at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. We mourn with our brothers and sisters who lost their friends and family members at the gun-drawn hand of Dylann Roof. His actions were, in no uncertain terms,...

Faith • Theological Reflections

Havel on the Human Condition

Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read

“It’s as if we were playing for a number of different teams at once, each with different uniforms, and as though—and this is the main thing – we didn’t know which one we ultimately belonged to, which of those teams was really ours.” I am drawn to wise and good people. If I have my...

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