As an artist and graphic artist, I have long lived with an increasing sense of unease. The daily requirements of work and thought devoted to the sale of products in the advertising industry had over time sharpened my sensitivity to a kind of cultural intoxication. The...
With rapid increases in transgenic crops, animal cloning, and genetic modification, surely there are reasons for concern.
Why are Christians so resolutely locked into combative camps about human origins, closed to serious dialogue with one another? This makes it difficult for us to seriously consider scientific discoveries about the natural world alongside the Bible as the trustworthy story of God.
Any time I’m in the kitchen I’m only seconds away from disaster—and yet, despite the rough-draft quality of some meals, I’m always trying to communicate through the language of food, simply, “I care about you.”
A wunderkammer of discoveries, compiled by Comment and illuminated for our readers' edification and entertainment. We do not necessarily endorse the external content below.Comment friends Rob and Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma are touring Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa,...
In early 2008, micro-electrodes implanted in Zak Benjamin's brain relieved the symptoms of Parkinson's Disease. Zak regained his mobility. The burden of his second chance weighed heavily, and it was difficult to start work again.An Oprah show, where a husband and wife...
A wunderkammer of discoveries, compiled by Comment and illuminated for our readers' edification and entertainment. We do not necessarily endorse the external content below.Comment passes its deepest regrets to the family of Gerald Folkerts, renowned Winnipeg artist,...
The delicate shadows and emptiness of Billy Maker’s wooden-sculpture “constellations” ask viewers to wonder if we are outgrowing and endangering our own environments.
Does an economic system that bases compensation on productivity, leading to a huge income gap, meet the test of basic fairness and justice? Or are we seeing—like the Boston Red Sox destroying a local Little League team—unfair and predetermined outcomes?
According to Newsweek, we may be well be witnessing “The End of Christian America” as we have known it. Instead of transforming culture, the culture may in fact have transformed the church.
Yet the key, going forward, is realism. The good creation is very fallen; the fallen creation is very good. In what spirit will you press on?
