Listening Closer: Lucinda Williams’ Lenten Liturgy
Lucinda Williams’ ‘The Ghosts of Highway 20’ works as the perfect soundtrack for an Ash Wednesday liturgy.
Lucinda Williams’ ‘The Ghosts of Highway 20’ works as the perfect soundtrack for an Ash Wednesday liturgy.
Shearwater’s latest album turns us away from a world that we make to our own liking and toward one that was made for us.
We cannot hear exactly what “Strange Fruit” meant to those who heard it in the late 1930s, but we can take to heart what it means to us now.
“Away in a Manger” is a song about safety, but it also reminds us of Christ’s compassion for us in difficult hours and on dark roads.
We need God’s promises; and in the traditions of all psalmists, they’re easier to hope for if we sing them.
On her new album ‘Short Movie,’ Laura Marling takes listeners with her on a quest to find beauty in places of unsettling darkness and unnerving vulnerability.
The Innocence Mission shows us that the more an artist acknowledges and expresses the brokenness we know in this life, the more meaningful her praises of beauty and declarations of hope become.
Jeffrey Overstreet interviews Andrew Peterson about his joyous new album, ‘The Burning Edge of Dawn’.
Wilco’s ‘Star Wars’ is an album for believers content with — even excited about — uncertainties.
In “Elevator Operator,” Courtney Barnett tells the familiar story of our attempts to rise above life’s petty stresses and regain perspective.
Third in an interview series in which Jeffrey solicits historical insights and personal passion about Bob Dylan’s ‘Bringing It All Back Home’ on its 50th anniversary
This week in Listening Closer, Jeffrey Overstreet interviews Joe Henry about Bob Dylan’s ‘Bringing It All Back Home.’
Fifty years after the release of Bob Dylan’s ‘Bringing It All Back Home,’ Overstreet interviews Dylan admirers about the artist and the album; this is the first in a three-part series.
Novelist and rapper, Kate Tempest, and filmmaker, Céline Sciamma, open us up to stories far different from ours in “Theme for Becky” and ‘Girlhood,’ respectively
Several songs on Nathan Partain’s ‘Jaywalker’ came just in time to help me find the words that I—and maybe others—might need as some kind of medicine for an angry, aching heart.
The most interesting correlation between Torres and graduating Seattle Pacific University Scholars is their frequent testimony that, throughout their struggle, they have sustained their faith in Jesus Christ.
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