“I wish my pastor understood me, believed in me, commissioned me.” I have been sitting with those words for weeks now. They were spoken at a recent conference by Jess...
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I am no prophet. In fact, the two most life-altering “prophecies” I ever voiced were spectacularly wrong. The first occurred just six months into my teaching career. After overhearing one...
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There is a scene I keep returning to from Mufasa: The Lion King, the 2024 prequel that tells the origin story of the great lion king whose legacy his granddaughter...
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In January, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney characterized our present global moment as a time of “rupture, not transition.” By this he...
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Hints of Hope: Essays on Making Peace with the Proximate by Steven Garber is available now through Hearts and Minds Bookstore and on January 20, 2026, everywhere else. TWI has...
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Sitting in a course at Regent College, I remember hearing the amusing story of the heated “signboard debates” between a Catholic church and a Presbyterian church located across from one...
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