Culture • Popular Culture On Seeing & Hearing Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read “For what a person sees and hears depends a good deal on where they are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are.” Over the years of... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Grace, Goodness and a Common Life Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read I don’t think it was Radiator Springs, but perhaps you could see it from there. But in the strangeness of things, I was watching that iconic scene in Pixar’s “Cars”... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture What I Learned from Will Campbell Adam Joyce | 3 min read Will Campbell died last week. There was a small flurry of obituaries that seemed to struggle at including the breadth and almost contradictory spectrum of his life. He worked extensively on the... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Stories and the Moral Imagination Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read “The play’s the thing to catch the conscience of the king.” Shakespeare’s insight into the meaning of stories still instructs, teaching generations something important about “the call of stories” and... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Implicated in the Way the World Turns Out, for Love’s Sake Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read “Just pondering, huh?” Sitting on the deck, looking out at the little woods in which we live, I was. Meg smiled, and assured me that it was okay, and I... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture “Call the Midwife” — Not Ordinary Television Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read “What I saw as a calling, perhaps it was only a dreadful mishearing.” Not ordinary language on television, at all. But “Call the Midwife” is not ordinary television. Rather, words... Continue Reading
