Summer 2010

Skillful living

Comment readers and writers are seeking practical answers to the big questions of life with requisite fear and trembling. We need to answer in ways that are more than merely relevant, that are prophetic—not simply enough for today, but enough for what tomorrow may bring.

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In The Print Issue

Editorial

Robert Joustra

Editorial: Seize the Quarterlife Crisis

An opportunity to press beyond who we are and into who made us.

Essay

Kirstin Vander Giessen-reitsma

Love it or Leave it?

Discerning what to hold tightly, what to hold loosely: a rumination on luxury and "royal wastefulness."

Q&a

Albert Erisman

Connecting Faith and Corporate Leadership

What's gone wrong with recent business leaders, and how the former chief at PepsiCo thinks we can fix it: an interview with Steve Reinemund.

Essay

Kuyper the Mystic

"A Christianity that neglects the mystic element grows cold and congeals." —Abraham Kuyper. Why personal piety and public life can coexist.

Essay

Jedd Medefind

What the world needs most is “not” our relevance

If we are to offer our culture what it needs most, we must pull from sources beyond it.

Essay

Daniel Siedell

Art After Fifth Grade

Understanding the production and distribution mechanisms whirring underneath the "art world."

Book Review

Gideon Strauss

Love will build this city

Caritas in Veritate and the call to culture making. Includes the 2009 joint statement "Doing the truth in love," presented by the Center for Public Justice, Cardus and the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics.