Culture • Popular Culture Bah Humbug: Cards, Letters and Things Remembered Erin Rodewald | 9 min read I‘d like to report a bit of bah humbug that has me particularly troubled. In recent years, I’ve noticed fewer and fewer Christmas cards landing in my mailbox. At first,... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture The Beauty of Love as It Was Made to Be: Marcus Mumford’s “Self-Titled” Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read We long to be loved and we long to love, all of us. And while we sometimes get it more right than not, sometimes we fail miserably, wounding ourselves and... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture How is God Changing People and Places? Abraham Cho & Gregory Perry | 14 min read Early on a Sunday morning in East Harlem, a young couple and their two daughters wait for the elevator up to the second-floor space where their church meets above the... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture The Return of the Prodigal Son: From Two Artistic Vantage Points Randy Newman | 9 min read On a recent visit to The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, I was drawn to a painting I had not seen there or anywhere else before. My first... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Religious Freedom: An Essential Lyric for Human Flourishing Erin Rodewald | 10 min read Some people, many in fact, believe the absence of religion would make for a happier, more peaceful existence here on planet earth. In the early 1970s, John Lennon enshrined that... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture The Surprising Origins of Religious Freedom Hugh Whelchel | 9 min read On May 6, 1776, thirty-two “sons of Virginia” representing every county of the state met at Williamsburg to pass a resolution calling for the Virginia delegates at the Continental Congress... Continue Reading