“Play this Song, DJ, Maybe We Can Change the World”
Tuesday, November 4, 2008 was a monumental day. It was the day America elected Barack Obama as the first African-American President of the United…
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Call for Papers: Christian Congregational Music Conference
The Fourth Biennial Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives Conference Conference dates: 18-21 July 2017 Deadline for proposals: 15 December 2016 Venue: Ripon…
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Millennial Christians and the Post-Evangelical Love for Sufjan Stevens
As early as 2005, the Los Angeles Times was announcing the arrival of a new generation of musicians whose preference for introversion over boisterous ego and overwrought sexuality…
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Heaven Is a Place on Earth: Finding the Sacred in the Secular
I grew up in a church that had only traditional worship—and I loved it. As I got older, I remained loyal to Newton, Watts,…
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Minstrels of Infirmity: Ex-Christian American Singer-Songwriter Dudes and Whether or Not They Help the Church
On the American indie music scene, the past ten or fifteen years have seen a rash of singer-songwriters—male, white, thirty-something—making dark, lovely, lyrical, disturbing,…
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Let There Be Rock: The Strange Poetics of Richard Dawkins’ Rock Opera
It is perhaps one of the more immediately striking partnerships in the history of music. On one side we have Tuomas Holopainen, pianist and…
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Barth, Mozart, and the Shadow-side of Creation
In the midst of expositing the doctrine of Creation that takes up the third volume of his Church Dogmatics, Karl Barth addresses das Nichtige:…
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Review: Music, Modernity, and God: Essays in Listening
Jeremy S. Begbie. Music, Modernity, and God: Essays in Listening. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, viii + 261 (272) pp., £35.00/$55.00 hardback. Music, Modernity,…
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Contemporary Confessions: Hozier’s Ecclesiastical Confusion
“But in this lay my sin: that I sought pleasure, nobility, and truth not in God but in the beings He created, myself, and…
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