Review: Zach and Maggie’s The Elephant in the Room
An album that opens with a polka imagining what might happen if the “elephant in the room” is literally an elephant in a room and closes...
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- Jan 18
Clearing the Path: A Review of On the Spiritual Disciplines
After production for All the Wrecked Light wrapped up in the spring, I took an excurses of sorts from writing projects of my own to take...
- Jan 10
Rabbit Room Recs: Our Favorite Reads of 2022
Welcome to Favorites Week here at the Rabbit Room. For the next few days, we will be detailing some of our favorite finds of the last...
- Jun 22, 2022
Finding the Right Words: A Review of Little Prayers for Ordinary Days
As a child, I was terrified of being asked to pray aloud. It always seemed like other people—usually adults—knew all the right words and...
- Jun 13, 2022
The Table is a Temple: A Review of Taste and See
“Why do we eat—together?” This is the central question of Andrew Brumme’s exquisite new docuseries, Taste and See, a cinematic journey...
- Feb 15, 2022
Lessons in Longing: A Review of Blue Flower by The Gray Havens
In his autobiography Surprised by Joy, C. S. Lewis writes of the distant Castlereagh Hills outside his nursery windows. “They were not...
- Feb 4, 2022
Joy on the Journey: Chasing Sehnsucht in Zhao’s Nomadland
“Home, is it just a word? Or is it something you carry within you?” In the opening minutes of Chloe Zhao’s film Nomadland, we see these...
- Jan 31, 2022
Faith & Contingency in J Lind’s The Land of Canaan
I heard it said once in an interview with Michael Pollan that, when it comes down to it, every writer only really asks one question with...
- Jan 13, 2022
Encanto and the Miracle of Empathy
One of the reasons I love fantasy as a genre is because of the inclusion of magic. In fantasy stories—the good ones anyway—magic can...
- Dec 21, 2021
True Testimony: What Makes It Through by Sara Groves
As I listened to Sara Groves’s new album on repeat, my mind grasped for the best way to describe what makes her songwriting so special....
- Nov 8, 2021
In the Song A Love That Sees You: A Review of Becca Jordan’s Becoming Ordinary
The other night in bed, I told my husband, “I’m sad.” That’s not a statement I allow myself to say out loud very often, and never without...
- Oct 18, 2021
A Review of Taylor Leonhardt’s Hold Still
I think my wife, Kelsey, said it best: “Find me in twenty years and I will still be listening to this warm, rich album.” Everything about...
- Aug 10, 2021
Reading with Open Eyes & Hearts: A Review of Steeped in Stories by Mitali Perkins
Mitali Perkins is the author of many wonderful books for children ranging from picture books to young adult novels. But I first heard of...
- Aug 5, 2021
The Heart of a Child: A Review of Hand to Hold by JJ Heller
When my kids were little, they loved when I read to them—they still do—and they especially loved when I sang to them, even though my...
- Jun 14, 2021
Old Favorites: Arthur Alligood’s One Silver Needle
[Editor’s note: This piece is the second in a series begun by Mark Geil called “Old Favorites,” where various contributors to the blog...
- May 12, 2021
God Above, God Below: A Review of the Faithful Project
As a rule, I don’t take well to the separation of men and women in artmaking. I don’t think that individual sexes hold the keys to a...
- Apr 15, 2021
Old Favorites: Clear to Venus
A treasured album is like an old friend. Any longtime music listener has them: those well-worn albums you come back to, not every day but...
- Mar 22, 2021
When Words Become Art: A Review of Go and Do Likewise
John Hendrix has created his own unique style by blurring the boundary between text and art, melding it into cohesive story. Nowhere is...
- Mar 16, 2021
All For Your Love’s Sake: A Review of Prayer in the Night
Tish Harrison Warren’s book Prayer in the Night is out in the world now. In it, her dark night of the soul is framed in the context of...
- Jan 18, 2021
Charlie Peacock’s Mind-Bend: A Review of Skin and Wind
Art cannot be divorced from context, so it is the year of our Lord 2021 into which Charlie Peacock’s wonderful new album, Skin and Wind,...
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