Culture • Popular Culture O Little Town Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read O little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie Above thy dark and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by Yet in thy dark streets shineth The everlasting... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture A Walk in the Woods–and Tim Tebow too Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read At the end of the afternoon Meg and I walked into our woods, sure one more week that the Redskins were not worth watching. They are just not a serious... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture The Two Economies Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read “How long does it take to make the woods? As long as it takes to make the world.” The wise words of Wendell Berry from his collection of poems, “A... Continue Reading
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