Culture • Current Conversations All A’s and Still Flunking Life Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read “I was just someone who shared notes, and now I’m implicated in this.” At least that is the way a Harvard undergraduate explains the cheating scandal that has recently rocked... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Art Imitating Life, Life Imitating Art Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read Art imitating life, life imitating art. Sometimes it is not so easy to tell which is which. Yesterday I had an email from a friend whose company is making a... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture A Good Prayer Dr. Steven Garber | < 1 min read Almost ten years ago I spoke at a conference on “The Faces of Justice,” and met Jena Lee (now Nardella), then an undergraduate. Over time we have become friends and... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture The Artists Get There First Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read The artists get there first. It is a thesis I have argued for most of my life. Something about gifts and vocations, about sensibilities and instincts, that allows artists to... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture A Foreword to “Crossed Lives–Crossed Purposes” by Ray Blunt Dr. Steven Garber | 6 min read Sometimes very innocent conversations can have consequences that echo across time. For example, when I first asked Ray Blunt, “So what is your work?” He told me of his teaching... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Wonderfully, Horribly Complex as We Are Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read The human heart is complex—wonderfully so, horribly so. And at our best we see through a glass darkly, knowing some things, not knowing other things. I thought of this today... Continue Reading