Culture • Popular Culture Madison Avenue, Mad Men, and Much More Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read Madison Ave. Mad Men. Image and reality. True stories and sort of true stories and not-so true stories. Last week I was in New York City, very close to Madison... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture On Tender Mercies Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read “I don’t trust happiness. Never did, never will.” If it sounds like a country song…. Meg and I watched “Tender Mercies” this week, the film about a down-and-out singer who... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture St. Patrick, U2, and the Songs We Sing Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read Slane. As a boy, sometimes I would make my way through a Sunday morning looking at the tunes of songs to be sung, imagining pilgrims of earlier days naming their... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture What Makes a Good Life? Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read Sometimes words write themselves on our hearts. I still remember a conversation with a friend whom we had invited to join us for lunch, and we were talking about anything... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Unbroken, and Broken Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read Vir. It is not a word we use very often. But we do know virile, and virility, and virtue— each are words rooted in the ancient word, vir. What is a... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Peace on Earth, and Yet, and Yet Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read They said there’d be snow at Christmas They said there’d be peace on Earth But instead it just keeps on raining A veil of tears for the virgin birth I... Continue Reading
