Culture • Popular Culture Merle and Me… Breaking Up Was Hard to Do Tod Moquist | 6 min read (With gladness, I welcome Tod Moquist to our pages. One of my oldest friends, we began conspiring in first grade, growing up a block from each other in the great... 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 • Popular Culture A Long-Loved Love Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read Sometimes there are tender tears. On my flight across America a few days ago, I watched the film, “Coming Home,” born of the genius of Zhang Yimou, the celebrated director... Continue Reading
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