“Sinner Get Ready” by Lingua Ignota is a powerful reminder that our willingness to speak about trauma and listen to those who are surviving is a measure of our willingness to experience the reality of God.
Music
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Interview: Behind the making of an all-Ignatian album, featuring the music of Jesuits from 13 countries
Rather than trying to understand or analyze God, a new Jesuit musical collaboration gives people an experience of God.
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How Great Elvis Art: A roundup of Elvis’s gospel hits
The new film “Elvis” isn’t long enough to include all of Elvis’s gospel hits, but here are some highlights from his career.
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Andrew Bird sings good news for a hurting America
On his new album, Andrew Bird takes a hard look at the ills of contemporary America and wonders how on earth we got here.
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‘Stranger Things’ brings Kate Bush’s Catholic hope to a new generation
Kate Bush’s 1985 hit “Running Up that Hill” has exploded across pop culture. But it’s more than just the song in “Stranger Things.” It’s also deeply religious.
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Raw, brilliant and prophetic: Lauryn Hill’s MTV Unplugged concert 20 years later
The music industry didn’t know what do with Lauryn Hill’s rare, self-confessing and Christ-centered performance.
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Interview: Composer Sarah Hart on writing a modern Catholic hymn
“In the Living Waters” speaks directly to anyone who finds themselves suffering, ashamed or alone, and it describes a God waiting to welcome them.
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Nick Cave is not a practicing Christian. But he wants to be your spiritual director.
For hundreds of thousands who follow his music and his newsletter, The Red Hand Files, Nick Cave has become a pastor of sorts.
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Review: Hip-hop’s divine blend of poetry, song and story
Alejandro Nava begins his formal analysis by situating hip-hop as something that “recovers the oral, rhythmic, and melodic nature of ancient scriptural transmission.”
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Leonard Cohen’s imperfect covenant with others, lovers and God
Marcia Pally’s new book focuses on Leonard Cohen’s faith, relationships and worldview through his use of Jewish and Christian imagery.