Music Archives

Those who eschew a revisionist view of Scripture around the issue of sex will be viewed as the “do-badders” and no longer the “do-gooders.”

Our team highlights their favorite music and podcasts from 2020 that managed to break through the dark days and deliver a bit of goodness.

Perhaps it was inevitable that, back when I was looking forward to a summer of attending and reviewing performances of all nine symphonies, it was all about to crash and burn.

Goodness takes time, so why not live with hopeful ambiguity instead of bitter snap judgement?

As Mona Haydar makes clear, faith which worships human authority and depends on rules for other people is a form of godliness only, not the real thing.

Music like Ray LaMontagne’s can play a part in tuning our hearts to this holy grammar all around us.

The female experience in life very frequently feels like that of a queen on a chessboard, especially when we get into traditionally male-dominated spaces.

Springsteen’s Letter to You could only be written by someone who spent the better part of five decades trotting beside the mysterious practices of the Catholic Church

A brief survey of America’s flawed history reveals that during Reconstruction our government has attempted to position itself for greatness in terms of using its power to serve the lowliest in its caste system, formerly enslaved citizens.

We’re not, it turns out, a civilization of rock gods and their devotees; we’re all connected, and we all depend on each other.

The Story of Fire Saga shows us how to mature past win-lose games into a form of infinite play that values process and relationships over victory.

And that’s real soul music. It assumes God is within the reality of life—all of your life. Dancing and dating are in the same universe as politics and poetry—this is all God’s world, anyways.

If Exodus voices our collective hunger for deliverance, it also calls us to work for deliverance, toward liberatory action.

In writing fiction, Taylor Swift has somehow managed to ponder the deeper truths of love and loss and life.

Alexander is redeemed, not because he deserves it, but because Eliza grants redemption to him.

First off, it’s named for the unit of measurement large enough to record melting polar ice. Gigaton wears doom on the album sleeve.