Culture • Christianity & Culture How to Orchestrate a Revolution Dr. Bruce Lowe | 12 min read When the first Christians were in process of becoming something big, something substantial from the perspective of all around them, a Jew named Gamaliel stood up and gave this speech:... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture Augustine, Kundera, and More: What Do You Love? Dr. Steven Garber | 7 min read “The Devil laughs because God’s world seems senseless to him; the angels laugh with joy because everything in God’s world has meaning.” Milan Kundera watched the world of Central Europe... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture The World of Our Lives, and Past Lives Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read Movies, movies and more movies — and the 21st-century has given us platforms and possibilities that are overwhelming. Our local theaters still, but now PBS, Amazon, Acorn, Netflix, and BritBox... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture Mystery and Creation: A Christian Poetic Stephanie DiMaria | 11 min read What makes a book “good”? Is only overtly Christian literature worthy of filling the Christian mind and attention? And if this is the case, why does it seem like the... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture Family Ties and the Gift of Belonging Erin Rodewald | 10 min read Who knew spitting into a plastic tube would become such a popular pastime? Not to mention lucrative. The direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing market — think 23andMe or AncestryDNA — has... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Gods and Gangsters Heidi Wong | 6 min read Not Suitable for Family Time! The Crown has been thrilling — watching (sometimes fictionalized) tensions behind closed doors at Buckingham Palace — but a different Netflix account of “royalty” at... Continue Reading