Culture • Current Conversations A Terrible Beauty Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read 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... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture On “Silence” and More Dr. Steven Garber | 5 min read “But did he hear their screams?” My wife Meg is named after two martyrs who lost their lives during the horrible “killing times” of Scotland in the 17th-century. Two Margarets, one an older woman and the other a girl, were staked in the bay as the tide came in, condemned to death for their refusal... Continue Reading
Faith • Theological Reflections On Laughter and More Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read “The devil laughs because God’s world seems senseless to him; the angels laugh with joy because everything in God’s world has its meaning.” When I first read those words, I was struck by their hard-won wisdom. Milan Kundera, one of the great novelists of the 20th-century, wrote about the challenge of being human in the... Continue Reading
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... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture The Culture is Upstream from Politics Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read The culture is upstream from politics, always and everywhere. A few days ago I made that argument at the University of North Carolina, giving the Wilberforce Lecture. While each week my work matters, and each time I speak I feel “holy butterflies,” this seemed more weighty to me. There had been a tremendous amount of... Continue Reading
Faith • Biblical Reflections Missio on Gen. 13: Brown and Barren Dave Saville | 4 min read He was already old, carrying the promise, his staff, some wealth – that was true – and what? A dream? What was it the LORD had said? “Go? Leave? And I will bless you?” Was that it? It had seemed enough then. He had been younger, heaven help him. Hopefully not naïve, although by anyone’s... Continue Reading
