Will you pray with me: Lord Jesus Christ, Have Mercy on Us Sinners. Draw us near to your cross that we too might take up the Cross. Amen. Last week, we followed Jesus after he got dunked by John in the Jordan, he heard the voice of God resounding from…

1 The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork. 2 Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night declares knowledge. 3 There is no speech, nor are there words; their voice is not heard; 4 yet their voice goes out through all…

In Rowan Williams’ Grace and Necessity, he describes Jacques Maritain’s account of the composition of art as requiring a first step of careful attention to the ‘pulsions’ of the object of the art, something like its “units of imaginative sense, clusters of feeling, or even ‘knots’ of imagery and cross-reference.”[1]…

The first version of this paper was composed to satisfy the requirements of The Theology of Death and Martyrdom, a Duke Divinity School course taught by Philip Porter and Stanley Hauerwas in the Fall Semester of 2018. “Bye, Pop,” I wave on my way out of my grandparents’ condo. Once…

“All I Wanna Do” — with its unbelievably danceable backbeat, defiantly hedonistic chorus, and earworm of an ascending pentatonic run through the title lyric — singlehandedly turned Sheryl Crow into a star in 1994, catapulting her debut album Tuesday Night Music Club to the top of the charts and winning…