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July 2018

July 31, 2018

Heavenly Protest: On the Afterlife of Radiohead

On June 16th, 2012, as Radiohead’s crew was setting up the elaborate LED stage lighting...

December 2017

December 25, 2017

“What Child Is This?” was written by a severely depressed man. And we love it.

In December, in the year 2000, I was 21 years old and four months...

September 2017

September 21, 2017

Songs As Sanctuary: Jenn Morson on Johnny Cash

Ever since I can remember, when I saw Johnny Cash, I saw my dad.

September 19, 2017

Songs as Sanctuary: Maren Grossman on Lady Gaga

Pope Francis has spoken of “credible witness,” the kind of witness that makes Christianity seem...

September 16, 2017

Songs as Sanctuary: Cassidy Hall on Alanis Morissette’s “Head Over Feet”

In middle school I had no idea who I was. I was mostly known...

September 15, 2017

Songs as Sanctuary: Rob Saler on REM’s “E-Bow the Letter”

When you grow up in a small town, it’s easy to assume that the...

September 13, 2017

Songs as Sanctuary: John Robinson on Project 86

I’m not a cheery feel-good person. In fact I’m quite misanthropic and struggle with fitting...

September 13, 2017

Songs as Sanctuary: Jonathan Ryan on Matisyahu’s Crossroads

Matisyahu came into my life when I was as a Presbyterian minister at THE Ohio...

September 13, 2017

Songs as Sanctuary: Eve Alexandra on Depeche Mode’s “Blasphemous Rumours”

I was raised without music or book censorship, for the most part. My parents were...

September 13, 2017

Songs as Sanctuary: Kristen Allen on Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline”

I love music. I love all kinds of music. My mind uses music like a...

September 12, 2017

Songs as Sanctuary: Michael Delp on Bob Dylan’s “Ain’t Talkin”

Once, decades ago, Dylan went nuts, jumped from one universe into another and called himself...

September 12, 2017

Songs as Sanctuary: Sarah Margaret Babbs on Tupac’s “Changes”

A few months ago, I went back to Chicago with my daughter, now 6....

September 12, 2017

Songs as Sanctuary: Cameron Dezen Hammon on Springsteen’s Thunder Road

Once not long ago, at my lowest point of faith, of faithlessness really, after my...

September 12, 2017

Songs As Sanctuary: Justin Hopper on Steely Dan and Dive Bar Gothic

This was not what you might expect for the kind of place that had people...

June 2017

June 19, 2017

Séance with the Freudenabteilung (or, Communing with Dead Nazi Sex Slaves): Listening to Joy Division as Religious Experience

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not...

May 2017

May 03, 2017

Jason Harrod: Trying to Say God

I don't think we should look solely to the church for our definitions of God. If...

April 2016

April 21, 2016

A Eulogy for Prince

Huh? Prince can’t die. Prince isn’t even human. Prince is ageless, immortal. Prince does not get...