Articles by Aarik Danielsen

Turning our expectations and environment upside down, the Beatitudes initiate the reversal of our moral and spiritual fortunes.

Reveling, then recognizing the same enthusiasm in us, Shea Serrano delights to share these experiences.

Jesus and John Wayne is history as confession, history as lament, a type of history that hopes in a God who never puts us to shame, even as hope in America does.

The life script we would produce with time and a writer’s room would leave out moments that produce hearty laughs, heaving sobs, and the sensations that lie between.

In their newer albums, Jimmy Eat World shows that the good stuff lies just beneath the soil of the stories we tell ourselves.

Race’s conspicuous exclusion from mainstream Christian music (CCM) communicated something implicit and insidious.

Lament recognizes that we are pictures of the kingdom of God, not drawn to scale.