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
Culture • Popular Culture On Ambition and More Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read Maybe it was growing up in a small town. I do remember being home one summer in my early 20s, and biking downtown, stopping at the train tracks which were... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture The Truth About Love Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read “I wonder why I’m not enough.” Painfully honest words, ones that haunt a human heart. Yesterday I spent the morning with The Falls Church Fellows, and we began a course... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture On Movies and Their Messages Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read “So we are conditioning our society all the time and we should take responsibility for that.” I remember when I first began thinking about movies and their messages. Sort of... Continue Reading