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January 2015

January 24, 2015
I'll conclude with a few words about the American Sniper hubbub. But first, here are...
January 20, 2015
The first song of Joe Henry’s album Invisible Hour — my favorite record of 2014...
January 19, 2015
He's the great orator. Let's make a space for him to go on speaking. If...
January 15, 2015
We need this movie. We need it for this reason: Wherever Martin Luther King Jr....
January 12, 2015
This week, I begin a new year-long adventure: "Listening Closer." I will write about one...
January 09, 2015
In Selma — and I'm pretty sure about this — there is more gospel quoted,...
January 09, 2015
By choosing intimacy over an epic scale, by going small instead of large, by discernment...
January 03, 2015
Albums I wanted to hear every week; albums I would be happy to own in...
January 01, 2015
This year's Favorite Films list accomplishes several things for me: 1) It reminds me that —...

December 2014

December 31, 2014
Overdoing it? Yes. As long as War & Peace? Yes. But here it comes anyway:...
December 29, 2014
What album meant the most to you in 2014? Tell us about it, and you...
December 25, 2014
It started as a spur-of-the-moment experiment. I asked Joe Henry if he'd be willing to...
December 24, 2014
I couldn't have asked for a bigger Christmas surprise, or a more enjoyable Christmas blessing,...
December 24, 2014
It just made sense. Inviting people to share Christmas playlists, shouldn't I invite someone who...
December 23, 2014
W. David O. Taylor and Phaedra Taylor bring us one step closer to Christmas Eve...
December 23, 2014
Nobody I know writes about music with more passion, personality, and insight than Andy Whitman....
December 23, 2014
How many movies that promise to "inspire" you actually inspire you? I don't mean "Do...
December 22, 2014
I first encountered Robert Deeble's music on Seattle alt-rock radio, and I was immediately taken...
December 22, 2014
It is a thrill for me to share this Christmas playlist from one of my...
December 21, 2014
You may know the name Robert Clark because of his celebrated writing. Since I pay...
December 21, 2014
What can we learn from Mary, the mother of Christ, that can help us understand...
December 21, 2014
This week, in my community of arts-and-faith explorers, conversations have been focused on the joy...
December 21, 2014
The author of How to Write a Poem shows us how to make a Christmas...
December 20, 2014
Our guest DJ for some Christmas music: The author of Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative...
December 20, 2014
A Christmas playlist from the author of North of Hope.
December 19, 2014
One of the biggest musical surprises for me in 2014 was the discovery of a...
December 17, 2014
A Christmas playlist from adventure novelist and Rabbit Room editor A. S. Peterson...
December 16, 2014
I began listening to this post's guest DJ late, and by a rather circuitous route....
December 15, 2014
I was already a fan of Chris Willman's work in the early '90s when he...
December 13, 2014
If I were struggling with cancer, I suspect this movie would come across as punch...
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