Caitlin Causey

At Least They Have a Target

Caitlin Causey accepts the curious comfort of a chain store as she seeks a place to call home.

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Matthew Tan

St. Evagrius of Pontus and Redeeming Time in Postmodernity

The following is a guest post by Matthew Tan. Matthew is a Lecturer in Theology and Philosophy at Campion College Australia. Currently he is a Visiting Professor in Catholic Studies and a Research Fellow at the Centre for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology at DePaul University in Chicago. Matthew is also the editor of the […]

D. L. Mayfield

Scenes from the Mall

D. L. Mayfield explores her personal experiences of American inequality and considers what social justice might really looks like.

Joshua Busman

The Spiritual Children of Sigur Rós

Before moving to North Carolina to begin a Ph.D. at UNC-Chapel Hill, I lived just outside of Nashville, TN. During my four years there, many of my friends were Nashville natives and even more of them were aspiring audio engineers, producers, and recordings artists who came to the city hoping to find work on Music […]

Joshua Busman

On Praise and Worship Music: An Essay to its Cultured Despisers

“Praise and worship” music is one of the most oft-evoked and heavily contested markers of evangelical Protestantism in the United States. Its most vocal advocates herald praise and worship and its meteoric rise since the 1960s as nothing less than the rebirth of Western Christianity, citing its unique ability to attract an entire generation of […]

Kelly Hickman

Can Moving Music to the Cloud Drive Bring Christians Closer to Heaven?

Music has interacted with other media for decades—from film scores to television theme songs, radio music stations to news stories and podcasts—music rarely stands alone. When music does stand “alone,” as in perhaps the case of music for the sake of music such as with live symphony or rock music performances, it remains ever mediated. […]

Brett David Potter, Brian Bennett

Eat This Chip. Drink This Pop

The Super Bowl spectacle provides an intersection of Christ and culture with an ad that won’t be shown.