Culture • Current Conversations Commonwealth and the Common Good Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read Commonwealth is an unusual word in the modern world. Still used in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Massachusetts for the word “state,” it is a way of seeing life together, a... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations On Good Business Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read Can business ever be just about business? or politics just about politics? or the arts just about the arts? or education just about education? The wisest wisdom has always said... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Unconnected in a World of Digital Connections – Part 3: Trinity, Idolatry, Twitter, and Facebook Lee Marcum | 4 min read In the current blog series on communication technologies, we have sought to bring attention to the way in which the specific form of communication influences both the content and user.... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Unconnected in a World of Digital Connections – Part 2: We made Twitter, but it also makes us… Lee Marcum | 4 min read The average American spends unprecedented amounts of time in front of digital screens each day. The Guardian recently reported that in 2014 one trillion photos were taken across the globe,... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Unconnected in a World of Digital Connections – Part I Lee Marcum | 4 min read Can you imagine a world in which the only means of communication were verbal speech and non-verbal gestures—a world in which there were no alphabetic letters, reading/writing, digital media, or... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Living In and Stepping Out of Privilege, Part 2 Lindsey Yoder | 5 min read I wrote last week’s discussion concerning privilege and racial reconciliation with no idea of the events of Wednesday, June 17 at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. We mourn with... Continue Reading