Culture • Current Conversations A Terrible Beauty Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read Intractable. It is a hard word, and one we wish wasn’t. Whenever we find ourselves needing that word, we are in a miserable place. Sometimes marriages seem like that, and... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Loving Your Neighbor 101 Tanner Metzko | 3 min read After years of barbarianism and violence in the Promised Land, we finally see a glimpse of hope in the Book of Ruth. If the world had more people like Ruth... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Even Proximate Justice Is Hard to Find Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read Proximate justice, one more time. I walked into a familiar classroom this morning, one where I spent many hours over many years. And as I prepared to begin, I saw... Continue Reading
Culture God-Fearers Respond to Economic Injustice Promptly Luke Bobo | 4 min read Fear of God The starting point for living a moral life begins with fearing God. Fearing God does not mean having a boogeyman-type fear of God; nor does fearing God... Continue Reading
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 • Popular Culture On “Silence” and More Dr. Steven Garber | 5 min read “But did he hear their screams?” My wife Meg is named after two martyrs who lost their lives during the horrible “killing times” of Scotland in the 17th-century. Two Margarets,... Continue Reading