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Faith • Theological Reflections

Reweaving Shalom: An Interview with Author Hugh Whelchel

Rev. Joe Palekas | 13 min read

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 –...

Faith • Theological Reflections

The Promise and Perils of Faith, Vocation, and Culture: Part II – Suffering for Changing the World

Dr. Bruce Lowe | 8 min read

The New Testament’s Crooked Narrative Arc: In Part I last week, I began by noting that the New Testament is not entirely straightforward when it comes to the subject of faith, vocation and culture. Revelation says that in a certain era — the era in which actual Christians lived — there was a situation where...

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...

Faith • Theological Reflections

Shadow and Light

Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read

Shadow and light. Watching the mysterious interplay between the sky and the grass, the trees and the flowers, I found myself thinking about the way shadow and light makes its way through life for every one of us. We live amidst both glories and ruins, all day long having to make sense of the very...

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...

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...

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