“I Am My Father’s Son”: Stephen Wilson, Jr., Wendell Berry, and the Myth of Self-Creation
Wilson’s songs trace the long, difficult movement where inheritance becomes not just a burden but a belonging.
The Highwomen Project Merely Cracks a Mold in Need of Breaking—in the World and in the Church
The church should be a “crowded table” with a place by the fire for every woman—white, black, and brown alike—where she isn’t crammed into a narrow definition of womanhood and femininity.
The Stories Our Churches Tell
While the story of scripture and the story of America are not always in conflict, they are not the same story.
Loving My Prodigal Country
How, in the face of such divisiveness, rage, resentment, and hatred, does one go on loving the country where it’s all taking place?
A Country Rightly Loved
Rightly ordering our loves allows for patriotism and love of country, but it prevents nationalism and idolization of country.
Women Behaving Badly: What Miranda Lambert’s ‘Vice’ Is Really Telling Us
Country star Miranda Lambert gives us insight into sexual freedom for women: does it mean behaving as badly as men?
CAPC Magazine, July 2016: God & Country Special Reflection Issue
We have much to celebrate as Americans and even more to celebrate as Christians.
God and Country Music: Shovels & Rope’s Punk-Rock, Incidental Spirituality
“Regardless of the intention behind Shovels & Rope’s spiritual aesthetics, they are present throughout.”
God and Country Music: “Sin City,” 40 Years after Gram Parsons
“Parsons figured out how to merge the old and new, sacred and saeculum (the current age).”
God and Country Music: The Musical Stylings of the Film Mud
God and Country Music: The Ethical Dilemma of Nashville Ghost Writing
“And while I look at the practice with the suspicion on the grounds of greed and lack of artistic integrity, maybe there is no right or wrong answer.”
