Arts & Culture
Playing to lose
I witnessed the sports betting empire ruin one man’s life. It’s coming for millions more.
The mother load
In Die My Love, Jennifer Lawrence’s character seems to have intuited an invisible straitjacket of maternal expectations, and she is desperate to shake it off.
Singing the Newsboys with Flamy Grant
The musician and drag queen is an exvangelical who came to see that holding on to a theology of self-loathing was just too dangerous.
Rockwell the activist
The US government is deploying Norman Rockwell’s paintings of idealized American life as propaganda. Those who are preserving his legacy are not happy.
I keep listening for the chorus
My partial hearing loss is teaching me about Advent waiting and finding my place in God’s song.
The heft of a pulpit Bible
As I pressed my sermon’s pages across the book’s valley, I couldn’t keep them from sliding into the groove.
Learning from people who can’t quit
Musicians never stop being musicians. I hope it’s the same for justice seekers.
Songs that call me home to Puerto Rico
Bad Bunny’s music and activism have reconnected me to roots I thought were severed beyond repair.
A day of mourning each November
I have been asked more than once to participate in civic Thanksgiving services. And more than once, I’ve declined.
Art that stretches us
I’ve been thinking about different ways visual art can challenge our perceptions and assumptions.
Shared songs with new meaning
My colleague’s Black church was taking a break from anti-racism work with White churches. So we decided to sing together.