Culture • Popular Culture Wonderfully, Horribly Complex as We Are Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read The human heart is complex—wonderfully so, horribly so. And at our best we see through a glass darkly, knowing some things, not knowing other things. I thought of this today... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture On “The Artist” and more Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read Meg and I saw the film, “The Artist” last night. A bit reluctantly, I confess. For months now, I have wondered whether a silent film in black-and-white would be worth... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture It’s a Calling– On Steve Martin, Owen Wilson, and Jack Black Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read “It’s a calling.” On a long cross-continental plane ride today I saw the film, “The Big Year.” Mostly I’m not interested in airplane movies, as they typically scrape the bottom... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Still Gotta Serve Somebody Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read Driving home from Pittsburgh yesterday afternoon—after one more year of “going up to Jerusalem” for the annual Jubilee and its thesis that “everything matters” –I was listening to “The Best... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Giacometti and Dylan, Years Later Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read There are threads that run through our lives. Yesterday I was given a tour of the Cornell University campus, and we stopped at the Johnson Art Museum, designed by I.M.... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture On Quiet and Corhaven Rev. Bill Haley | 3 min read In a recent New York Times opinion article entitle “The Joy of Quiet”, the well-known author Pico Iyer reflected on one of the deep ironies of our 3G, wi-fi, smart-phone,... Continue Reading
