Culture • Popular Culture On Tender Mercies Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read “I don’t trust happiness. Never did, never will.” If it sounds like a country song…. Meg and I watched “Tender Mercies” this week, the film about a down-and-out singer who... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture Faith & Vocation & Culture, One More Time Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read Faith. Vocation. Culture. I had written the words on a paper napkin, and I saw him looking at them— and then he looked at me, and said, “That’s the problem... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture St. Patrick, U2, and the Songs We Sing Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read Slane. As a boy, sometimes I would make my way through a Sunday morning looking at the tunes of songs to be sung, imagining pilgrims of earlier days naming their... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture A Hard Question Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read A hint of hope— and sometimes that is all there is. On Thursday night I gave a lecture in Charlottesville, “Can We Know the World, and Still Love the World?”... 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
Culture • Christianity & Culture On Duty and Desire Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read Duty and desire. Yesterday I spent some time at the Wade Center on the campus of Wheaton College— I only wish that I had had hours to ponder, taking its... Continue Reading