Culture • Popular Culture The World of Our Lives, and Past Lives Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read Movies, movies and more movies — and the 21st-century has given us platforms and possibilities that are overwhelming. Our local theaters still, but now PBS, Amazon, Acorn, Netflix, and BritBox... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture Mystery and Creation: A Christian Poetic Stephanie DiMaria | 11 min read What makes a book “good”? Is only overtly Christian literature worthy of filling the Christian mind and attention? And if this is the case, why does it seem like the... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture Family Ties and the Gift of Belonging Erin Rodewald | 10 min read Who knew spitting into a plastic tube would become such a popular pastime? Not to mention lucrative. The direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing market — think 23andMe or AncestryDNA — has... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Gods and Gangsters Heidi Wong | 6 min read Not Suitable for Family Time! The Crown has been thrilling — watching (sometimes fictionalized) tensions behind closed doors at Buckingham Palace — but a different Netflix account of “royalty” at... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture Love In the Ruins Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read Love in the ruins—and to be honest, we don’t get better than that. One more window into this reality is the recent essay in the NY Times, “A Conversation With... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture The Delight of Reading Rediscovered Erin Rodewald | 12 min read Americans have a reading problem. For starters, fewer of us can be found with our noses in a book these days. According to a recent Gallup poll, book readership is... Continue Reading