Culture • Popular Culture On the Beach Boys… the Beatles… Bono and his band Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read The Beach Boys… the Beatles… and Bono. For a few days this week I was close enough to the Pacific Ocean to bike along the beach. Watching the sunrise, the... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Merle and Me… Breaking Up Was Hard to Do Tod Moquist | 6 min read (With gladness, I welcome Tod Moquist to our pages. One of my oldest friends, we began conspiring in first grade, growing up a block from each other in the great... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture A Long-Loved Love Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read Sometimes there are tender tears. On my flight across America a few days ago, I watched the film, “Coming Home,” born of the genius of Zhang Yimou, the celebrated director... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture The Wound of Knowledge Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read “Never say that a soldier does not know the cost of war.” As the story comes to its sober conclusion, this is the response of the British army officer to... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Fighting Life’s Small Battles with Wendell Berry Eric Peterman | 2 min read It seems for most of my life that I’ve been surrounded by friends who are superhero movie connoisseurs. While I find these movies to be entertaining and impressively produced, I... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Missio on Joseph: FanDuel, Dorothy Sayers, and Joseph Stanton Coman | 5 min read Sports are one the most enjoyed and exclusive past times in the whole world. Virtually every country has a national sport, and every four years each of those countries vies... Continue Reading