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In our final review of the Symposium of Bruce Ellis Benson’s Liturgy as a Way of Life, Nathaniel Marx approaches Benson’s book from a different angle, engaging him and his argument with a unique cultural phenomenon that seems at first glance far away from Benson’s topic. But Marx’s cultural exegesis proves just as good as […]

A poem in the ghazal form that elegizes Emmett Till, an African American boy who was murdered in Mississippi in 1955 after reportedly whistling at a white woman.

In this spoken-word poem, Matthew Brouwer riffs on his ideal presidential candidate, a leader who knows the blues.

In this essay, Scott Small describes surprising encounters of the sacred in the music of Thelonious Monk.