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Lent, Week 5: The Thick Darkness Where God Was

Like any production, we start with Act I. I’ve thought about Moses a lot in the last year—bent and grey, hunched over some cut of...

Hutchmoot Podcast & Video: A Theology of the Blues & Belonging

Mar 15, 2021

Hutchmoot Podcast & Video: A Theology of the Blues & Belonging

The Hutchmoot Podcast features some of our favorite sessions recorded at our annual conference which celebrates art, music, story, and...

Mar 10, 2021

Lent, Week 4: An Image & A Song

The fourth in a weekly, six-part Lenten series exploring themes of human frailty and suffering through music, story, and art. This week’s...

Hutchmoot: Homebound 2021 Registration Now Open

Mar 8, 2021

Hutchmoot: Homebound 2021 Registration Now Open

This October, from North Wind Manor in Nashville, Tennessee, we’re once again sending you a taste of the Rabbit Room in the form of...

Sing the Bible, Vol. 4: Let’s Help Make it Happen!

Feb 25, 2021

Sing the Bible, Vol. 4: Let’s Help Make it Happen!

by the Rabbit Room Calling all music-loving kids, parents, and slugs named Doug: Slugs & Bugs is making a new Sing the Bible album, and...

The Local Show Streaming Edition: Live from North Wind Manor

Feb 19, 2021

The Local Show Streaming Edition: Live from North Wind Manor

by the Rabbit Room We are so pleased to get to announce a brand new season of The Local Show, livestreamed from North Wind Manor,...

Feb 19, 2021

BOOKS

Nietzsche & the Promised Land

by J Lind Let’s go back: it’s the day of my last album release. A year of DIY psychoanalysis, rice-and-beans budgeting, and humiliating...

Ash Wednesday: An Image, A Song, A Liturgy

Feb 17, 2021

Ash Wednesday: An Image, A Song, A Liturgy

by the Rabbit Room The first in a weekly, six-part Lenten series exploring themes of human frailty and suffering through music, story,...

Between Breezewood and Narnia: Introducing Zane Vickery

Feb 16, 2021

INTERVIEWS

Between Breezewood and Narnia: Introducing Zane Vickery

Sometimes, a piece of art emerges out of nowhere and catches you by surprise. For some of us, indie artist Zane Vickery’s debut...

Feb 15, 2021

Everyday, Ordinary Songs

So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and...

Shakespeare: The Tragedies “Music oft hath such a charm” [5&1 Classical Playlist #14]

Feb 12, 2021

Shakespeare: The Tragedies “Music oft hath such a charm” [5&1 Classical Playlist #14]

Music oft hath such a charm To make bad good, and good provoke to harm. — Measure for Measure, Act 4, Scene 1 Music was crucial to...

Feb 11, 2021

MUSIC

Introducing: New Music Roundup

Do you ever get overwhelmed by the sheer volume of great music being made and shared? We certainly do. Sometimes it’s hard even to know...

Famous Last Works [5&1 Classical Playlist #13]

Feb 5, 2021

Famous Last Works [5&1 Classical Playlist #13]

There is no guarantee that one’s last words on planet earth will be weighty, profound or even memorable. None of us know the exact hour...

Daylight Robbery/Rockery [5&1 Classical Playlist #12]

Jan 29, 2021

Daylight Robbery/Rockery [5&1 Classical Playlist #12]

Picasso said (allegedly), ‘Good artists copy; great artists steal.’ Well, knowing a little bit about him, he probably stole it. Or was...

Jan 25, 2021

CULTURE

Black Cadillacs and Murder Ballads

I’ve been thinking a lot about a talk given by author and theologian Russell Moore at 2020’s Hutchmoot—the Rabbit Room’s annual...

Becoming Authentically Human is Hard. But Not Impossible.

Jan 22, 2021

Becoming Authentically Human is Hard. But Not Impossible.

When I was 21, I signed a Nashville publishing deal. As a shy teenager I had discovered songwriting as a form of prayer, therapy, and...

Hidden Messages [5&1 Classical Playlist #11]

Jan 21, 2021