Patronage: Why We All Need to Invest in Culture

• Albert Goldbarth

Keats’s Phrase

My father’s been dead for thirty years but when he appears behind my shoulder offering advice, or condemnation, or a quiet pride in something I’ve done that isn’t even thistledown or tiny shavings of balsa wood in the eyes of the world —“Albie, grip in the middle and turn with a steady pressure”—it’s measurable, if […]

• James K.A. Smith

Let’s Talk About Your Investment Strategy

We are all patrons, even if we don't mean to be.

Letters

Continuing the conversation.

• James K.A. Smith

World View

An annotated reading of your world, including poetry, sledgehammers, and the Religious Right.

• Makoto Fujimura

Culture Care: Called to be Patrons

Let's lay down our weapons of culture war and become patrons of beauty, tending our culture with care.

• Paul Brink

Institutional Faithfulness and the Christian School

Who are the patrons of the Christian school, and what does that role mean?

• Lukas Naugle

Welcoming Kickstarter into the Clubhouse

While it can and should never replace the deep patronage necessary for shalom, online crowdfunding can have a valuable place in positive culture-building.

• Don Flow

Philanthropy as Culture-Making

All of life is a gift lived under grace and the only appropriate response is gratitude expressed through generosity.