Faith • Liturgical Reflections
Windows into Waiting
Contributors from all over America reflect on the theme of longing and silence in their experiences of the Advent season.
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Faith • Theological Reflections
Reweaving Shalom: An Interview with Author Hugh Whelchel
Things are not the way they are supposed to be – COVID, racial injustice, political division. The list goes on. Does the very fact that everyone agrees things should be different mean anything? Hugh Whelchel thinks so. Our recognition that things are not as they ought to be points us to a deeper reality –...
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Culture • Christianity & Culture
Culture is Upstream from Politics: 50 Responses
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...
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Culture • Current Conversations
Implicated in the Way the World Turns Out
We owe a debt to those among us who have the ability to detach themselves from the era in which we live and help us see the defining characteristics of our age. That’s why I love David Brooks’ columns, and listening to Ted Talks and reading theology. And while there may be many ways...
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Culture • Current Conversations
A Terrible Beauty
Intractable. It is a hard word, and one we wish wasn’t. Whenever we find ourselves needing that word, we are in a miserable place. Sometimes marriages seem like that, and we can see no way other than more sorrow. And sometimes work bring us into messes that we groan over, knowing that there is only...
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Faith • Liturgical Reflections
Advent Meditations: Do You Hear What I Hear?
October 1962. The world was on the brink of nuclear war. The Soviet Union was stockpiling missiles in Cuba and the U.S. government responded with a military blockade. The world watched in fear as the U.S. Navy prevented a Russian freighter, loaded with armaments, from approaching Cuba. Hindered by mistrust and poor communications, John F....
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