Madonna’s 13th album, Rebel Heart, includes quite a lot of spiritual imagery—sometimes couching temptation in terms of a struggle requiring divine assistance, other times merging
Dads often take it on the chin in popular culture. Sitcoms depict us as forgetful, undependable, disheveled doofuses who mysteriously manage to snare pretty ‘n’
Movies were a big deal in 2014, with Christian movies jostling elbows with dystopian thriller movies. But so were TV shows, music releases and video
I really love music, which is one of the reasons why I’m Plugged In’s main music reviewer. But the discouraging reality is that many of
I don’t often think very much about metalcore music. If I’m listening to it (usually for this job), it’s kinda hard to think at all,
Each week here at Plugged In, I review at least one music track and an album. And that can actually be kind of a tricky
Quick now, what’s the catchiest tune put out in the last 70 years? OK, OK, don’t hurt yourself. According to a research group at the
Last week, Selena Gomez shot a video for her latest single, “Love You Like a Love Song”—a video that included a couple of ponies with
“Hear the bells ringing/They’re singing that you can be born again/Hear the bells ringing/They’re singing Christ is risen from the dead.” Those splendid lyrics bounce
In the R-rated romantic comedy High Fidelity, record store owner Rob Gordon (played by John Cusack) ponders this chicken-and-egg conundrum: What came first, the music
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