Culture • Popular Culture The Seven Basic Plots and the One Basic Plot: Cosper, Booker, and The Stories We Tell Will Herron | 9 min read Being parents of young children, it was a rare occasion (even pre-pandemic!) when my wife and I were able to get out to dinner and a movie. Our last cinema... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Robin Wright’s “Land”: Two Essays Dr. Steven Garber | 7 min read “He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.” These words have been running through my mind the last weeks, thinking through ideas about metanarrative... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture In Praise of a Good Morality Tale: the Simple and the Complex in the Fiction of Elizabeth Goudge Becca Hermes | 11 min read Bibliotherapy. Never heard of it? Neither had I, at least by name, until browsing a lifestyle magazine a few months ago. Perhaps you are familiar with this term. For those... Continue Reading
Culture • Current Conversations When Darkness is My Closest Friend Randy Newman | 12 min read I’m beginning to write this just a few days before February, the longest month of the year. I know what the number of days on the calendar says and how... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture A Mosaic in the Making: The Indefatigable Hope of Rev. Matthew Anderson, D.D. Rev. Matt Lietzen | 18 min read After taking the podium as the Presbyterian Church in America’s (PCA) first African-American Moderator on June 13, 2018, Rev. Dr. Irwyn Ince, Jr. gave a brief speech wherein he shared... Continue Reading
Culture • Christianity & Culture Christians As a Cultural Minority (Again) Peter Wehner | 16 min read The relationship between the culture and politics is complex and subtle, so it’s worth saying something about each, starting with culture. Culture involves far more than what we traditionally think... Continue Reading