Culture • Current Conversations An Interview with Five Iron Frenzy’s Micah Ortega Adam Thies | 5 min read Five Iron Frenzy spent eight years making music and capturing the hearts and minds of Christian outsiders: those who felt they didn’t fit with the status quo of their church... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture Exegete Your Failures Adam Joyce | 3 min read “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” –Samuel Beckett I have heard the end of this quote bandied about as an axiom recently, “Fail better.”... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Fathers of the Bride, and Peter Berger too Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read Bride that she will be, father that I am, Eden and I spent two evenings this week watching “Father of the Bride.” With popcorn between us, we spent several hours... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations 9/11 and the Ruins of Memory Adam Joyce | 4 min read It is difficult to forget 9/11. I was in 10th grade at a college prep school in the D.C. area. During my second period sex education class it was announced... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Why Should You Care About the World? Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read “I’m going to lecture on ‘why you should care about the world!’” This morning I drove onto Capitol Hill, past the Capitol itself, and stopped at Bagels and Baguettes for... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture The Story of Almost Every Story Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read Maybe it is that I have been thinking about it for a while, but…. I don’t think there is anything deeper in us, human beings that we are, than our... Continue Reading