Join the Culture Gardener Challenge this summer

By Carmen Fowler LaBerge | May 20, 2025

Dear friends, It’s time to get gardening! Culture gardening. Let me explain.  Consider the dominant metaphors for culture: melting pot, war zone or contest, stage, endlessly repeating cycle, or culture is likened to a house or a river.  And while several of these have scriptural support,  the primary metaphor God uses for culture throughout the…

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Summer Calling: Serving as Spiritual (or Actual) Lifeguards

By Carmen Fowler LaBerge | June 9, 2023

“Pool closed.” That’s the sign greeting many urban families across the United States this summer. Why? There’s a nationwide shortage of lifeguards. The lifeguard shortage has been going on for the last few years, but this summer, it is reaching a crisis level. From Minneapolis to Chicago to Philadelphia and New York, hundreds of community…

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