Music Archives

Many of our most beloved secular and sacred carols have sorrowful connotations intrinsically wrapped up inside them.

Taylor Swift’s latest album accurately shows we are not the sole culprit for our sleeplessness.

Messages need to deal in facts and the consequences of history—two things Ye is willfully and utterly unconcerned about.

Instinctively, Loretta Lynn seemed to sense that music goes even deeper than hopes and dreams and ideals.

An antidote to both hopeless secularism and blind, unreflective faith, Mark Heard’s songs grab listeners by the lapels and shake them awake.

There is indeed an affinity to the classical pagan tale in Hadestown, one that tells us much about our own day—especially when compared to the medieval poem Sir Orfeo.

The question of the dissemination of dangerous ideas through art is always a contentious one.

Is Vecna’s evil really exemplified best by the tumultuous sounds of black metal artists like Darkthrone and Mayhem?

I wish I could say that Christians are exempt from the effects of fear, but to say so would be a lie.

In U2’s Songs of Innocence, the artist can participate in this reality of love, but only if he can first humbly admit the poverty of his own soul.

Three hit songs offer three different perspectives on what it means to worship.

These songs may be deeply sad, but the album serves as a stirring reminder that death doesn’t have the final word.

Seventeen years later, Commit This to Memory remains a visceral account of one man’s search for that reality, an empty bottle ebenezer reminding us that self-actualization is a messy, painful, and ultimately impossible process. Without help, that is.

Reviewing the products of 1981 and 2021 reveals our desperate search for salvation from death… and salvation from modern daily life.

Here’s what everyone was reading at Christ and Pop Culture in 2021.