by John Guerra, SJ | Oct 18, 2019 | Music, Pop Culture ~ Approx. 3 mins
When it was released, I kept Bon Iver’s new song “Faith” on repeat. The optimistic strumming of an acoustic guitar and an angelic choir wrap the song in light, celebration, authenticity, and a sense of the sacred. For days, I sang along presuming it spoke truth. I...
by Jason McCreery, SJ | Sep 6, 2019 | Art, Music, Pop Culture ~ Approx. 10 mins
I don’t remember when, sometime during high school, I transitioned from ironically listening to Taylor Swift (because, well, high school) to genuinely jamming out to the highschool-sweetheart country/pop tunes. The fact that my high school all-male choir sang a...
by Ian Peoples, SJ | Aug 23, 2019 | Art, Music, Pop Culture ~ Approx. 6 mins
Rapper Nathan John Feuerstein, known by his initials NF, just released the album “The Search,” which quickly awarded him number one spot on Billboard’s Artist 100 Chart. The album is ultimately about his quest for happiness. Money and fame haven’t...
by Jason McCreery, SJ | Aug 2, 2019 | Film, Pop Culture ~ Approx. 4 mins
A few weeks ago, Disney released a new version of Hamlet The Lion King. The new film is part of Disney’s live-action re-creation of beloved classics, though “live-action” is a bit of a misnomer in this case. The Lion King is still completely animated; it just has...
by Colten Biro | Apr 5, 2019 | Film, In the News, Pop Culture ~ Approx. 5 mins
With a single snap of Thanos’s fingers, Marvel fans were left with desperate and heart-wrenching goodbyes and credits running in silence at the end of Avengers: Infinity War. For a year now Marvel fans have found themselves wrestling with a single question: What is...