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... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations “Bleeding Together” and the Failure of Majority Churches Darryl Ford | 5 min read Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wisely observed that the most segregated parts of the American week were Sunday Mornings. Despite his exhortations to bring different races together, this is largely still true today, and the effects are tragic. Continue Reading
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
