The best Neil Diamond songs share a few simple traits: they’re catchy enough to unite the largest crowds on the planet, deeply sentimental, and refuse to make even the slightest effort to be cool.

Like a great Neil Diamond song, Craig Brewer's soapy portrayal of Milwaukee's favorite cover band is proudly uncool — and determined to make audiences sing along anyway. The best Neil Diamond songs ...

I’ve never been wild about the term “faith-based movie” — or, at least, the idea that it should only be applied to PG-rated calamity-meets-redemption soap operas micro-targeted to Evangelicals. “Song ...

Welcome to “The Lyrics of a Showgirl.” Any Taylor Swift album is endlessly quotable, and her 12th is far from the first exception, even if you have to go a few tracks in to “The Life of a Showgirl” to ...

The beginning of the school year has its familiar rhythms. Students will pop up on my screen in little squares for an online course. They will slowly trickle in and take seats around tables. We will ...

Over the centuries, perhaps no volume of poetry has claimed the devotion of so many people across the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and also inspired the creation of artistic ...

In the center of the room, under glass, a Hebrew Bible lies open to the Book of Psalms. Gold leaf glimmers on the borders; red dragons grasp a blue shield while green and blue birds perch on curling ...

A new book says streaming platforms have “broken” how we make and hear music. Can the church model a better way? There’s an old joke about the evolution of music technology that goes something like, ...

Laufey’s buttery smooth vocals have been keeping fans fed for a few years now, and the singer-songwriter is putting them to work on her latest single, “Tough Luck.” While the Grammy winner gained ...

Praise God: Psalms 100 "A Song of Praise unto the Lord" #god #hbcu #love #success #motivation Psalm 100 is the 100th psalm in the Book of Psalms in the Tanakh.[1] In English, it is translated as "Make ...

Famous poets (tortured or not) have taken inspiration from Swift’s music. Can you match the poem to the song? By Jennifer Harlan Taylor Swift is many things: a pop superstar, a business mogul, a cat ...