The defining image of the COVID-19 pandemic may be that of an old person in a hospital bed connected to the full spectrum of medical industry resources but...
Music
Read The Moment of TendernessBy Madeleine L’Engle (Grand Central Publishing, 2020) “The world had changed all of a sudden and it wasn’t hers anymore.” Little...
Read The Least of These By Carla Swafford Works (Eerdmans, 2020) “The apostle Paul does not have a reputation for caring about ‘the least of these,’ ”...
Honk, Honk Honk. “Black Lives Matter!” Beep, Beep, Beep. “Black Lives Matter!” Voices and car horns synchronized to create a rhythm of solidarity...
Read Spiritual Conversations with Children By Lacy Finn Borgo (InterVarsity Press, 2020) Imagine what it would have been like if someone had asked you...
When I was growing up in a white Southern working-class home, country music was simply the air we breathed. Even as a rock and roll-crazed teenager, I still...
We face no shortage of celebrities who have responded to our troubled world with anger, with protest, or by joining the Resistance. Those who have responded...
Fifty years from now, if anyone still studies the humanities, perhaps there will be a great debate in the departments of cultural studies over who was the...
By and large, I am not a fan of pop music. Hip-hop, soul, blues, and grunge rock are more my style. But there I was on a cold and rainy Sunday night in May at...
It is not easy to summarize Leonard Bernstein’s Mass. Commissioned by Jacqueline Kennedy and premiered as part of The Kennedy Center’s opening in 1971, it...
