Finding the Divinity of Jesus Christ Superstar’s Countercultural Messiah
Once you get past all the counterculture posturing, Jesus Christ Superstar gets one crucial thing right about the gospel accounts.
Once you get past all the counterculture posturing, Jesus Christ Superstar gets one crucial thing right about the gospel accounts.
To wit, I wrote this because some British lads dressed as hobbits wrote songs that made my heart soar toward the God who laced the world with transcendent desires.
World Gone Cold seeks to “warm the blood and soothe the soul” in light of society’s isolation and chilly feeling.
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.
Instead of simply preaching his thoughts on those controversial topics, Lamar shares his experiences and resulting perspectives on the matters.
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.
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