Culture • Current Conversations What We Can Learn from the Second Thanksgiving Hugh Whelchel | 9 min read “And although it be not always so plentiful as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so far from want that we often... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture An Inspector Calls: Agatha Christie Meets the Twilight Zone Heidi Wong | 9 min read One of the newest streaming services, Britbox, recently served up An Inspector Calls, the seminal work of English playwright, J.B. Priestley. Being fond of many BBC features, I decided to... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations There Is No Bible Without Migrants Rev. Dr. Casey A. Strine | 10 min read Haitians at the southern border. Afghan resettlement. Mexican families. Caravans from Central America. Syrian refugees. Governors as far north as Alaska demanding meetings to address the ‘unenforced borders’ of America.... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture Reading to Be Wrong Rev. Dr. Bill Fullilove | 11 min read Ragebait, oversimplification, irrationality, and petulance…. Our tribalist and instantly outraged culture has, of course, many causes and few quick solutions. As Charley Warzel noted about one particularly outrageous tweet in... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations Technology and Spiritual Formation Rev. Matt Lietzen | 13 min read In their 2019 book Faith for Exiles, David Kinnaman and Mark Matlock released some data on the consumption of screen media in the lives of “digital natives,” individuals between the... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Pilgrims We Are: The Best Stories Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read Pilgrims we are. The stories of my life are always a story of journey, of people on pilgrimage from here to there, from one place to the next. The most... Continue Reading