Culture • Christianity & Culture On Getting All A’s and Still Flunking Life Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read “Getting All A’s and Still Flunking Life.” A week ago I gave a lecture to a large gathering of town-and-gown on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, NY. A weekend... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture Abraham Kuyper– the Mystic Who Was Prime Minister –on the New Year Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read “When presently the twelfth stroke of the clock shall have sounded, we stand again at the opening of a new year. For that year also God appoints the beginning. He... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture Vaclav Havel–A Vocation for the Common Good Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read “When we lose God in the modern world, we lose meaning, purpose, accountability, and responsibility.” We do come and go…. and now, so has Vaclav Havel. But now he knows... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture The Two Economies Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read “How long does it take to make the woods? As long as it takes to make the world.” The wise words of Wendell Berry from his collection of poems, “A... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture The culture is upstream from politics, sometimes painfully so. Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read “What was it that Louis XV used to say? ‘Après moi, le déluge’?” So ends David Gergen’s CNN column today on the failure of the “super committee” of the Congress... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture The Politics of Self-Deception Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read In the years when I kept files of newspaper articles and magazine essays—the world before Google search –the largest file was one I called “the politics of self-deception.” Drawn in... Continue Reading
