Culture • Christianity & Culture Doorways to Transcendence Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read “Windows to transcendence” is the metaphor the brilliant sociologist Peter Berger offered, describing the way we see and don’t see the reality of the world around us. He argued that... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture On Sausage and Law, and Kuyper Too Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read “How did you find me?” It seemed an innocent question across the table of a cafe in the Dupont Circle of Washington DC. He had come from Germany, a political... 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 • Christianity & Culture Our Teachers Teach Us Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read Our teachers teach us, and that’s the point. We choose to learn, and because that is true, who we choose to learn from is crucial in what we learn. I... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture The Wound of Knowledge Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read “Never say that a soldier does not know the cost of war.” As the story comes to its sober conclusion, this is the response of the British army officer to... 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