Culture • Current Conversations Anxiety: “What More Can I Say?” Lauren Harrington | 3 min read Sometimes, humans can be stubborn. Most times, humans will be stubborn. I have always had to fight the temptation of pride. When I was younger, I would be under the... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations The Emperor’s New Clothes, One More Time Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read Most of life is pretty autobiographical. What we think about, what we do, where we live, why we care about some things and not others, and on and on; in... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations It’s Different When It’s Your Mother Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read “Perhaps it is more difficult than I thought before, because it is different when it’s your mother.” Twice a year I teach a course that requires the students to read... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Extrinsic? Intrinsic? Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read Extrinsic? Intrinsic? Twice in the last week I have been in conversations where these words have run through my mind, making sense of the moment. In one I was on... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations On Cheap Ideas Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read A couple days ago I talked all day long to a group of academic leaders from colleges and universities across the U.S. and Canada. An annual gathering, this year they... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Missio on Strife: Federalist No. 10 and Genesis 13 Thomas Kent | 4 min read “Is not the whole land before you?” In Congress, a culture of political strife clouds the atmosphere as spiteful statements daily crackle off flaming tongues. Congress is a combat zone where... Continue Reading