Music

Why American Pickle Falls Flat

Last month, two Jewish artists offered two divergent visions of the life worth living that anyone curious about the state of our union ought to examine. Continue Reading »

14 Sep 2020

Retune the Sky

by Peter J. Leithart

Music is the best language we have to describe the unified diversity of God’s life, the perfect harmony of Father, Son, and Spirit. Continue Reading »

19 Jun 2020

Around the start of the seventeenth century, a new sense of the word “harmony” emerged. To that point, harmony in music had been produced by the pleasing opposition of two melodies according to the principles of counterpoint. In the 1600s, “harmony” began to denote the non-melodic . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2020

Music in the Time of the Virus

by Jan Vogler

Through music, we can connect with and encourage one another despite our physical separation. Continue Reading »

25 Mar 2020

The Well-Fought Fight

by George Weigel

Like many other hymns, Ralph Vaughan Williams’s “For All the Saints” is an endangered species today. Continue Reading »

18 Dec 2019

On the Freedom of a Christian Rapper

by Onsi A. Kamel

Jesus is King, Kanye West’s latest album, channels the theology of Martin Luther.
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29 Oct 2019

Yeezus Follows Jesus

by Nic Rowan

Jesus Is King, released on Friday, is Kanye West's first explicitly Christian album, calling into question his role as the nation’s resident “jackass.” Continue Reading »

28 Oct 2019