With You Courtney Hartman (Reckoner Records, 2025) Courtney Hartman is a guitarist and songwriter from Colorado whose music is imbued with a sense of place. In...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
Antonio D. Sison C.P.P.S. and C. Vanessa White are professors at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. The suspense thriller Sinners, written and...
The Soulwork of Justice By Wesley Granberg-Michaelson (Orbis Books, 2025) “The world of social activism nurtures grandiosity,” Wesley Granberg-Michaelson...
Martin Scorsese’s first feature film, Who’s That Knocking at My Door? (1967), was panned because Harvey Keitel’s gangster character exhibited what one critic...
“O sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth.” • Psalm 96:1 Melisma Melisma is a vocal technique that involves sliding through various notes...
Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around By Justin Giboney (InterVarsity Press, 2025) Since the second half of the 20th century, culture wars have infiltrated the...
In 2013, the indie-rock band Vampire Weekend released a hit song called “Unbelievers,” in which the singer inquires whether the fire that “awaits unbelievers”...
Lux Rosalía (Columbia, 2025) It’s rare to see a pop star of Rosalía’s stature release an unapologetically religious album. It seems to have become a tradition...
The story of Moses the Black, a 4th-century religious figure, comes to life on the streets of Chicago’s West Side in Yelena Popovic’s new film, Moses the Black...
