Angel Trades a Shotgun for a Shovel: An Interview with Terry Scott Taylor,...
Guest Post by Chad Thomas Johnston Most bands with lifespans of forty years or more have—at some point, and with a certain sort of gracelessness—rolled downhill from the summits of their celebrated...
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Guest Post by Chad Thomas Johnston Photo taken by Phillip G Brown Fine Art Photography Continued from yesterday. Chad Thomas Johnston: Can you talk about the circumstances under which you wrote the new...
View ArticleHow To Begin a Book
I’m a bit Type A for a poet—or for what people perceive as one. I like to know when and where I’m going with my writing, and why. This is no apology. Without specific goals, I wouldn’t have written a...
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This post was made possible through the support of a grant from The BioLogos Foundation’s Evolution and Christian Faith program. The opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily...
View ArticleTo Illuminate a Small Field: 15 Songs for 2015
By Joel Heng Hartse At the end of each year, I compile a list of “songs of the year” that I email to my friends (and send to Image) on December 31. These songs are probably not the best of the year,...
View ArticleBelieving in the Beach Boys
The first church I attended as a teenaged new believer swiftly taught me two doctrines: There won’t be any Democrats in heaven. Secular music is tantamount to heresy. The first one was easy enough to...
View ArticleQuaecumque Vera: 16 Songs for 2016
By Joel Heng Hartse You do not have to feel guilty about loving music. Please keep this in mind. Alan Jacobs, in his The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction, writes, “read what gives you...
View ArticleArcade Fire at the Empty Tomb
The end of Arcade Fire’s latest album finds the band somewhere unexpected: the tomb of Christ. “Mary, roll away the stone,” frontman Win Butler rasps as “We Don’t Deserve Love” approaches its climax....
View ArticleListening to My Life: 17 Listens for 2017
First, a note: I think this might be the last time I do this. If you’ve followed my writing about music for the last twenty years (in which case you are my mother, so thanks) you’ve heard me say things...
View ArticleOn Writing Odes: Taking Time to Celebrate
Amidst the constant stream of bad news these days, we would do well to make more time for acknowledging the good things in life. The ode is just that: “a formal, often ceremonious lyric poem that...
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