by Laura Van Dyke and Stephen Dunning…
by Ed Aust
The film Jesus Revolution tells the family story of the beginnings of the Jesus Movement, and the evangelical revival that took the Church and the nation by surprise in the late 1960s and into the 1970s. The story the movie tells…
by Ed Aust
A Grammy-nominated, Bammy award winning composer, pianist, fiddler, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Barbara Higbie has performed on more than 100 albums. Her latest, "Murmuration," is intended to soothe.…
by Sharon Gallagher
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Most good things share the quality of being perennial, and Flannery O’Connor’s work is certainly that. It is for this reason that Sharon’s review of the film Wise Blood is included in this Radix issue.…
by Dan Ouellette
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While Daniel Lanois isn’t well-known as a solo artist, in the past four decades he has become recognized as a renowned genius for imparting his alt-eclectic producing touch on high-profile projects.…
by Phillip Aijian
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This unique contribution provided by the artist and poet Phillip Aijian demonstrates not only the skill of an experienced craftsperson gifted with detail and vision, but beautifully reveals how art and theology can meaningfully contribute to each other.…
by Sharon Gallagher
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Joyeux Noel, an Oscar nominee for best foreign film in 2006, is something I highly recommend for Christmas viewing. Based on the true story of an impromptu WWI truce, this film deserves to become a Christmas classic, along with the well-loved parables of redemption, A Christmas Carol and It’s a Wonderful Life.…
by Bill Reimer
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Radix is ever so pleased to bring our readers some lovely book selections for this season.…
In the liner notes to his latest album, The Gospel According to Water, poetic songwriter and prestigious producer Joe Henry emphasized twice that “where a song comes from is not what a song is.” He’s at once saying that these thirteen raw, sinewy, and intimate poems—written in rapid inspiration last year and recorded in spare, demo-like takes after Henry was diagnosed with prostate cancer in November of 2018—are not autobiographical, but are “songs about finding light” in the midst of overcast circumstances.…
Each month people gather at our church (“virtually,” these days) for a “dinner and documentary.” Over soup, salad, and homemade cookies, we’ve learned about what’s threatening bee colonies and how to help care for them; about food waste and food distribution in the U.S.; about the surprising benefits of music therapy; and about what’s happening to immigrants and refugees.…