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Theme Song
Like music over the opening credits, a song can set the tone for an experience or trigger a latent memory. Sometimes manufactured and sometimes by chance, songs come alongside our stories like old friends, or perhaps like uneasy acquaintances. On the songs that make us feel something.
Fully Furnished
Whether we have a basement full of old chairs and sofas waiting to be reupholstered or just a stump around the campfire, we all live in relationship to furniture. Each piece tells a story of personal and cultural history. Gather round this issue, where our contributors will tell some of their favorite furniture stories.
Good Books 2
Have you ever gotten to the end of a good novel and felt a sense of grief at having to say goodbye to the world and the characters contained between the covers? Is there one book you wish everyone you know could read and love as much as you do? On the good books that become part of our own stories.
Sensory Experience
Most human beings have five senses: touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing. What’s your favorite sense? Do we privilege one over the others as a society? What is it like to live without one or more of these ways of experiencing the world?
Words on a Page
Reading is an activity conducive to being snowed in or sunning by the lakeside or riding the train for the morning commute. What other activity (besides perhaps listening to music or napping) is so widely and wonderfully applicable? Reflections on reading and favorite books.
Pop!
It carries the release of confession, finding out someone enjoys the same guilty pleasures you do, whether a reality show, a pop princess or the latest sugary sweet film treat. What is it about popular art that grabs the attention of even the most discerning intellectual palette?
Crying Out in Stereo
Music can cry out for the Kingdom of God. Alternately, music can shape us to be good consumers. Most music contains hints of both. On evidence of prophetic vision (or lack thereof) in music today.
Good Books
Have you ever gotten to the end of a good novel and felt a sense of grief at having to say goodbye to the world and the characters contained between the covers? Is there one book you wish everyone you know could read and love as much as you do? On the good books that become part of our own stories.
Election
You’re probably tired of hearing about it already, but there are still four months to go. Beyond the parties and punditry are a lot of questions Christians should be asking and seeking good answers to, especially American Christians steeped in an election year.
Ideas Have Legs
The Nazi worldview was one of the past century’s most striking examples of a set of ideals that sprouted legs and trampled over half the world, leaving behind unparalleled devastation. Though Hitler represents an extreme example, worldviews have significantly shaped movements throughout history and around the world. What do we see when we take a critical look at the past, present and future?
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