If there’s no heaven, what is this hunger for?” Red Dirt Girl Age and the Gospel have something in common: realism. Illusions evaporate. Like…
David John Seel, Jr.
David John Seel, Jr., PhD (University of Maryland) is a cultural-renewal entrepreneur and social-impact consultant with expertise in the dynamics of cultural change. His latest book is The New Copernicans: Millennials and the Survival of the Church (2018). He lives with his wife on a historic farm in Pennsylvania and blogs at www.ncconversations.com.
System of a Down, Toxicity (2001)
I don’t make a habit of listening to heavy metal music—particularly metal with a decidedly anti-Christian, Green Party, left-leaning bias. But I do try…
Spirituality and Pop Music – from Tori Amos to Lauryn Hill
Spirituality is hip and was omnipresent in pop music in 1998. From pop to hip-hop, Sanskrit to Scripture, popular culture displayed a renewed spiritual…
Lifehouse, No Name Face (2000)
The seventeenth century apologist Blaise Pascal wisely noted that “There are only three sorts of people: those who have found God and serve him;…
Robin & Linda Williams, Deeper Waters (2004)
We spake of many a vanished scene, Of what we once had thought and said, Of what had been, and might have been, And…
Bad Religion, The Process of Belief (2002)
The process of belief is an elixir when you’re weak I must confess, at times I indulge it on the sneak.” ~Bad Religion Contemporary…
Radiohead, Kid A (2000)
Radiohead’s long-anticipated record, Kid A (2000) is the antidote to the Disneyfied-saccharine-commodification of pop and the misogynist-angry-victimization of hip hop. Instead, Kid A is…
Paula Cole, Amen (1999)
Seven-time Grammy nominee and 1998 Best New Artist, Paula Cole has released her latest album, Amen, which has met with a strongly mixed reaction…
Counting Crows, Hard Candy (2002)
And it’s a dangerous time for a heart on a wire Shuttled from station to station noisily Not knowing why “Goodnight L.A.” The alternative…
Bruce Springsteen, Devils & Dust (2005)
Pfc. Lynndie England has become the notorious symbol of the moral corruption of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal. Pictures of her holding a…