With age comes wisdom, and that is certainly true for Taylor, whose latest album, “Midnights,” is almost entirely introspective, even a little retrospective.
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‘The Waste Land’ at 100: T.S. Eliot’s monument to despair — with a few laughs thrown in
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of “The Waste Land.” The 433-line poem is important, but it’s not very user-friendly.
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Kurt Vonnegut would still be amused.
The absolute refusal to accept handed-down truths—whether in politics, science, religion or art—was a constant in Kurt Vonnegut’s life and work.
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Can true crime podcasts right the wrongs of the criminal justice system?
There is no doubt that the attention that the podcast “Serial” brought to his case helped Adnan Syed, who was released from prison on Sept. 19.
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Netflix’s ‘The Crown’ was fiction—but it depicted Queen Elizabeth’s very real Christian faith.
As the queen of England, Elizabeth served as the religious leader of the British Commonwealth and supreme governor of the Church of England—and she took that role very seriously.
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Maggie Rogers describes making music as a religious experience. It shows on her new album, ‘Surrender’
Maggie Rogers wrote an album of “feral joy” for “Surrender,” the indie-pop artist’s second LP.
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You’re not a Bad Catholic. You’re just in your ‘Sleepy Peter Era’
By calling that time or series of not great choices an “era,” you recontextualize that experience. It is something that happened at a point or during a period in time that is now, emphasis added, over.
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Jo Koy’s ‘Easter Sunday’ magnifies the sacredness of tradition, family and Catholicism in Filipino culture
I decided that the best way to gauge reactions to the film was to gather feedback from none other than my own Filipino-American family.
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Interview: Can artists with diverging views on abortion find common ground through a Catholic musical?
People who shut down those with different opinions have a less rich life, and make less rich art.
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Lessons for evangelization from Britney Spears’s journey with the Catholic Church
Britney Spears recently wanted to get married in the Catholic Church. The controversy that followed shows us what we still need to learn about turning our churches into welcoming spaces.