Culture • Christianity & Culture The culture is upstream from politics, sometimes painfully so. Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read “What was it that Louis XV used to say? ‘Après moi, le déluge’?” So ends David Gergen’s CNN column today on the failure of the “super committee” of the Congress... Continue Reading
Culture What is legal is right–and why we don’t really think so Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read Rarely have we seen anything like the response to the sordid sadness at Penn State. For a thousand different reasons it is tragic. But of all that might be said,... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture The Politics of Self-Deception Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read In the years when I kept files of newspaper articles and magazine essays—the world before Google search –the largest file was one I called “the politics of self-deception.” Drawn in... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Artists Get There First Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read The artists get there first. At least that is how I have seen life and the world for a long time now. Maybe it was in my “dropped-out” years, away... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Implications of Empathy Dr. Steven Garber | < 1 min read People who know me well know that I spend much of my life working on one question, viz. can we know the world, and still love the world? Or to... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Seeing the World That is Really There Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read Perhaps it is true of you too. Sometimes you listen into a conversation, hearing the way that someone thinks, the way that they see the world, and you find yourself... Continue Reading