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
Culture • Current Conversations Living In and Stepping Out of Privilege, Part 1 Lindsey Yoder | 4 min read “Justice is our worship in action.” These are the words of Mark Reddy, Executive Producer of The Justice Conference, and I am only beginning to learn what they mean. Many... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Amusing Ourselves to Death Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read There are tragedies, and I’m not sure the Kardashians count as one— but their celebrity is a national sorrow. A couple days ago I flew across America, and sat next... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations A World Without Windows Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read “Fascism is psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life … Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a more grudging way, have said to people ‘I offer you a... Continue Reading
