Fujimura’s Art and Faith meditates on the necessity of art for spiritual flourishing. Pulling from a myriad of resources, Fujimura illustrates how artistic creation allows us to model ourselves after God, the first and greatest creator and artist, who created the world ex . . . . Continue Reading »
Our worship ought to be a genuine enfleshment of the Beauty of God. Continue Reading »
One of the most haunting images I know of comes from the last days of James Simon, a German Jewish composer who perished at Auschwitz. Having survived Theresienstadt, he and others were sent off to their final destination. Witnesses say that the last time they saw him, Simon was waiting for the . . . . Continue Reading »
Pepperdine professor Paul J. Contino is a well-known and well-regarded scholar and teacher of Christianity and literature, and he proves himself an engaging and insightful guide to The Brothers Karamazov with this new study. “I began work on this book over thirty years ago,” he notes. . . . . Continue Reading »
Living on the Other Side is the Church at her best, giving up none of her authenticity while carefully and lovingly embracing this culture, this place, these people. Continue Reading »
One of the most fascinating details of Mary Eberstadt’s “The Fury of the Fatherless” (December) is the observation that the BLM movement has a Marxist vision of the family: “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families . . . . Continue Reading »
Phil Spector was the very model of the modern music producer, and also a convicted murderer.
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In November 2019, a controversy broke out at the annual conference of the Society for Music Theory. The plenary lecture, delivered by Hunter College professor Philip Ewell, alleged the existence of elitism, color blindness, Eurocentrism, racism, and xenophobia in the field of music theory in North . . . . Continue Reading »
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 »
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 »
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