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The Both, Aimee Mann and Ted Leo’s first album together, combines catchy tunes with lyrics about the complexity of human relationships. Topics include setting boundaries with people with addictions, conflict with loved ones, and coping with environmental destruction. But the songs aren’t disheartening so much as cathartic.

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I’ve always been particularly interested in Dietrich Bon­hoeffer’s time in Har­lem. Bonhoeffer attended the Abyssin­ian Baptist Church, where he was deeply influenced by black Christian faith. In Bon­hoeffer’s Black Jesus, Reggie Willliams digs into Bonhoeffer’s experience with the black church—a formative experience that helped prepare him to resist the Nazi regime.