Faith • Biblical Reflections Revelation: A Competing Symbolic Universe Dr. Nicholas G. Piotrowski | 16 min read I hear the word “apocalypse” in casual settings more than a dozen times each year. It seems that every year there is a “Snow-pocalypse,” by which the evening news means 12 to 14 inches of snow will inconvenience you for about a day and a half. Or my son might talk about the “Vocabulary Apocalypse,”... Continue Reading
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... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations We the People… One More Time Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read “It always makes sense to tell the truth”– Vaclav Havel, 1936-2011. Hard as that is for each of us, it is only compounded when all of us lie. The personal is one thing, and it matters very much; the political is another: there the problem of lying is more horrible because more people are affected.... 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
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 Doorways to Transcendence Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read “Windows to transcendence” is the metaphor the brilliant sociologist Peter Berger offered, describing the way we see and don’t see the reality of the world around us. He argued that the Enlightenment vision of the modern world has closed those windows, believing that human beings do quite well, “enlightened” that we are as material accidents... Continue Reading
