The Case for Secular Grace
Grace is a powerful tool. It’s time we reclaim this term from Bible passages and make it the standard for our secular army.
Grace is a powerful tool. It’s time we reclaim this term from Bible passages and make it the standard for our secular army.
Gardens, like fundraising, take planning and effort. You can’t expect a bumper harvest of vegetables in the spring if you forgot to plant them in the fall.
Remember last year, when we thought it couldn’t get any worse? And then it did? Music saved my life this year, as it has several times before, and I owe a special debt to these tracks: my selections for the best of 2018.
Watching the best Christmas movie of all time, reporter Ryan Parker live-tweets the action. The result is magnificent.
It was the worst of years, it was the- well, just that, really. But terrible years make for excellent music, and the top releases of 2017 are krunk. Turn it up and forget the world for 1 hour 8 minutes. We got you.
It was the year that MIKA out-fabuloused Eurovision, M.I.A. gave us a good shakedown and Serj Tankian demonstrated his solo chops. Listen to these, the best songs from 2007, and ask yourself like I did: Wait, wasn’t that released last year?