Aug 15, 2022 Music Natalie Bergman’s Mercy Is an Exquisite Expression of Grief, Faith, and Love (Review) The album’s emotional heft comes from Bergman’s attempts to balance her belief in, and need for, a loving God with the horror and sorrow of her father’s death.
Apr 16, 2014 Movies Noah by Darren Aronofsky (Review) Darren Aronofsky’s Biblical adaptation serves as a bracing restorative for a story that has lost much of its bite over the centuries.
Apr 28, 2008 Literature Religion Thy Kingdom Come by Randall Balmer (Review) Balmer is taking off the gloves and striking up a much more defiant, incisive stance this time.
Dec 17, 2006 Best of Opus Music Songs for Christmas by Sufjan Stevens (Review) I’ve heard most of the songs on here before, countless times. But I had never heard them like this, in such a sublime context.
Sep 3, 2006 Music Mosaic by Wovenhand (Review) ‘Mosaic’ displays both the greatest strengths of Woven Hand’s music as well as its greatest weaknesses.
Dec 20, 2005 Movies The Sacrifice by Andrei Tarkovsky (Review) Tarkovsky’s last will and testament, a final summation of all that he believed about filmmaking, as well as spirituality and humanity.
Dec 14, 2005 Music Songs For The Advent by Sojourn (Review) I was completely unaware that I needed a good Christmas album this year and yet this album has filled that niche quite nicely.
Oct 17, 2004 Music Consider the Birds by Wovenhand (Review) Yet another staggering album from one of America’s most convicted (and convicting) songwriters.