July 2021

MARY LEE TALBOT - STAFF WRITER The Rev. Zina Jacque, lead pastor of the the Community Church of Barrington, Illinois, delivers her sermon “In an Emergent Moment” Sunday, July 4, 2021 on the Amphitheater stage.

SARAH VEST - STAFF WRITER Kolbert People have been hearing that the sky is falling for years, but now the Doomsday clock has ticked uncomfortably close to midnight.  And yet, the very technology that people

SARA TOTH - EDITOR Chiang When people talk about science fiction, Ted Chiang thinks, they mostly use the genre as a “synonym for nonsense.” He’d like to correct, or clarify, the record. “Think of the

DAVID KWIATKOWSKI - STAFF WRITER The full cast of Blood at the Root performs during a dress rehearsal on Monday, June 28, 2021 at the Performance Pavilion on Pratt. KRISTEN TRIPLETT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER “Way somebody choose