Beth Gibbons is singular in many ways, and “Lives Outgrown” is a singular contemplation of the countless changes we experience throughout our lives and the ultimate change to come after we pass away.
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Bill Walton—basketball legend, Deadhead and radical optimist—was a model of a life well-lived
“I wanted to be a basketball player, be a hippie, on tour with The Grateful Dead, be an adventurer. I didn’t spend my life trying to be the richest guy on Earth,” Walton once said about himself.
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Bronx bluesman and self-proclaimed ‘ferocious Catholic’: Dion DiMucci considers his legacy
Dion a great artist who continues to write and record music even now. But he is also a devoted Catholic, having returned to the faith of his childhood in midlife.
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Kendrick Lamar is (lyrically) beating up on Drake in ways hip-hop has never seen before. Why are we eating it up?
A beef between two of the biggest rappers in the world, Kendrick Lamar and Drake, has birthed unforgettable songs for both of these artists.
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Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ embraces country music, Black history and religious imagery
With “Cowboy Carter,” her eighth studio album, Beyoncé not only explores the longed-for and carelessly and/or intentionally erased Black past in country music, but also moves the genre forward into a hopefully more expansive future.
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A singer-songwriter inspired by Saint (and Pope) Francis
On Jesuitical, Zac and Ashley speak with Andrea Von Kampen about her new album “Sister Moon,” which draws on the spiritual and ecological wisdom of St. Francis of Assisi and Pope Francis’ “Laudato Si’.”
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The Our Father meets Paul Simon’s ‘The Sound of Silence’ at Spanish Mass
‘The Sound of Silence’ version of the ‘Our Father’ has been widespread throughout Latin America and U.S. Latino communities for the last few decades.
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We may have reached peak Taylor Swift.
You always hope that your favorite artist’s best work is still ahead of them. But what goes up must come down.
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The Jesuits’ musical legacy: A mission opera debuts in Bolivia
This week, a music festival returns to the Chiquitos missions in Bolivia, which the Jesuits established between 1691 and 1760. The story of the Jesuit “reductions” was made popular by the 1986 film ‘The Mission.’
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‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ is a take on faith that both believers and cynics can appreciate
“O Brother, Where Art Thou?” is the closest that the Coens have come to making a musical, and the film’s lush period folk soundtrack enriches its spiritual themes.