Listening Closer: Bettye LaVette Steals a Great Song Back From Madonna
Sometimes a cover version of a song reveals that different artists discover new possibilities, new interpretations, new insights in borrowed material. And sometimes it makes you wonder if the performer ever really listened to the words that they were singing.
Sailing to Paradise: Sin, Disease, and Natural Disaster
What had begun as a sight-seeing trip, God had turned into a spiritual journey.
Sunday Oldskool: “Hazeus View” by Joey Bada$$
Tiger Woods and Our Longing for a Comeback
We are drawn to comebacks, even just potential ones like Tiger’s, because they echo a longing in our hearts for redemption—for everything wrong to be made right again.
Outrageous Offense: ‘Pillars of Eternity’ and the Possibility of Grace
The backlash against crowd-funded ‘Pillars of Eternity’ highlights the hyper-critical nature of our age.
Seeing and Believing: “A.D.” + “It Follows”
LOL Interwebz: An Imprecatory Psalm for Nickelback
For I was envious of the marginally talented when I saw the prosperity of the Nickelback.
Mad Men: It’s All Smoke and Spitting in the Wind
Mad Men’s “Severance” is full of quests not taken, questers who have sucked the marrow out of life and yet can’t quite get off the ground and wind up slinging back to earth.
The CAPC Digest #10: Spectating Sports and Why We Cheer Together with Erin Straza
Burn After Listening: Sufjan Stevens and Simply Enjoying Music with Joel Heng Hartse
Persuasion: Our Need for Moral Clarity, with Sarah Kelly
‘Behold The King of Glory’: An Imaginative Approach to Passion Week, Free for CAPC Members
Tethered to Scripture, Ramsey’s words leave breathing room for an imaginative approach to Passion Week.
Listening Closer: St. Vincent, Sufjan, and the Mothers That Made Them
Through the music of St. Vincent and Sufjan Stevens, we might also come to appreciate our own parents—their successes, their failures, their sacrifices, their scars.
Who Said Travel Must Be Sexy?
Idolizing travel amazement can rob us of appreciating the ordinary amazement found in our familiar surroundings.
