“What’s your story?” Now there’s a loaded question. in television and the movies this seemingly simple question is often asked to introduce a significant character quickly. To give us a glimpse into who a person is and why they do what they do. From angsty teen dramas to dramas featuring cops or lawyers or doctors […]
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Stories are the most powerful thing that humans do. Not nuclear weapons or AI or empires. Stories. Because stories are the reason we develop weapons and computers and states and brands and art and gods and . . . The stories that we tell shape the world. Whether they shape nations or individuals, policies or
Unlike an iceberg rolling, cultural shifts can be subtle. Once we come face to face with them though, it’s easy to feel as if the entire world has turned upside down. At the same time, when the deep structures of our culture shift, we have an innate desire to get back to “normal”, whatever that
Everywhere we look these days something is on fire. The church, the country, families, schools, you name it. To put it another way, we are increasingly aware of fractures in just about every area of life. In his recent interview with Apollos Watered, James Davidson Hunter referenced just how deep the fractures are, noting that
In a recent Deep Conversation episode, Travis spoke with Trevin Wax who said that we are in a moment where there’s a lot of rot in the Church. I grew up helping my dad work around the house on projects from framing walls to building furniture. I learned the danger of rot in a hurry.
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These days racial issues feel as if they are always front and center. In some ways this is decidedly good news, in others it can be beyond wearying. George Yancey captures the current sentiment when he says Many of us are tired of fighting the same racial battles over and over again. We are tired
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“How did we get to place culturally where the statement ‘I am a woman trapped in a man’s body’ is universally understood as both coherent and meaningful?” (19) asks historian and professor of biblical and religious studies Carl Trueman in his recent book The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self. Trueman says that less than
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They say water is the most powerful force on earth. It erodes coast lines, carves canyons, can overwhelm the land in floods and tsunamis. But there is another way, a less obvious way, in which water is powerful. It nourishes life. We see the power of the Amazon or the Mississippi River but sometimes we
The land is parched. We are withered and in desperate need of water but there is no end to the drought in site, relief seems impossible. We turn this way and that, looking for water. But what little we can find is tainted. What life we see is sickly, gasping and yellow. Rainbows slide across
