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Winter 2016 |Volume 34, Issue 4
Cultural Jigs
This issue of Comment will explore how constraints—properly constituted—are integral to freedom and to a good society. In continuation of our anti-revolutionary approach, we're not keen to exchange one form of bondage for another just because it calls itself "freedom." In this edition of Comment we invite readers to take the time to step back and evaluate these cultural jigs and consider the ways they help us live, or hinder us from living, skilled lives.
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- Editorial: Cultural Jigs
Finite creatures can find freedom in good constraints.
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- World View
An annotated reading of your world.
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- Headquarters: Cardus Education Survey
Updates from Cardus on the renewal of social architecture.
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- Jigs for Marriage and Celibacy
You can't die to yourself by yourself.
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- A Story Called Rest
Can we imagine a society where Sabbath constrains our clamorous desires?
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- Rejigging Christian Culture
The demolition of cultural scaffolding made room for invisible cages.
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- Millennials and the Military
Who wants to sign up for a war that can never be won?
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- By the Book
If prayer is a craft, we shouldn't be ashamed to learn from the masters.
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- The Will is Not Enough
Why we need to think less about our phones and more about our practices.
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- The Church as Jig
What would it mean to resurrect the idea of a "Christian society"?
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- Cleaning Dishes as a Revolutionary Act
"Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes."—P.J. O'Rourke
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- The Commons: Designed Isolation
It's difficult to love what we can't see.
Contributors to this Issue
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Beth Green Beth Green is a Senior Fellow in Education for Cardus, and formerly Program Director of Cardus Education. She is Provost & Chief Academic Officer and Acting Dean of the University at Tyndale University in Toronto. Bio -
Brian Dijkema Brian Dijkema is the Vice President of External Affairs with Cardus, and an editor of Comment. Bio -
Chad Wellmon Chad Wellmon is an Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Virginia. Bio -
Doug Sikkema Doug Sikkema is a part-time associate editor of Comment in addition to being an assistant professor of Core Humanities and English at Redeemer University. Bio -
James K.A. Smith James K.A. Smith was the editor-in-chief of Comment from 2013-2018, and teaches philosophy at Calvin College. He is the new editor-in-chief of Image Journal. Bio -
Jen Pollock Michel Jen Pollock Michel is the award-winning author of Teach Us to Want and Keeping Place. Bio -
Kristen Deede Johnson Kristen Deede Johnson is Associate Professor of Theology and Christian Formation at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan. Bio -
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Peter Leithart Peter J. Leithart is President of the Theopolis Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, and serves as Teacher at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Birmingham. Bio -
Tish Harrison Warren Tish Harrison Warren is an Anglican priest, writer-in-residence at Church of the Ascension (Pittsburgh, PA), and author of Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life. Bio -
Wesley Hill Wesley Hill is associate professor of New Testament at Western Theological Seminary and an assisting priest at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral. Bio
