by Kali Cawthon-Freels | Dec 18, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
“Joy to the World.” Are we actually planning to sing that this year? As the death toll rises in Gaza, children starve and America deals with the fact that it saw more than 500 mass shootings this year, joy seems too dismissive a word for these troubled times. Perhaps...
by Kali Cawthon-Freels | Dec 7, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
In early November, I took a day trip to New York City with some of my closest friends. We saw things you’d expect the typical New York City tourist to see: Times Square, Central Park, and so on. What we didn’t expect to see, though, was a massive Free Palestine...
by Kali Cawthon-Freels | Nov 27, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
If you’ve been minimally paying attention to trends in Contemporary Christian Music (CCM), then you know about Flamy Grant. If you haven’t, let me fill you in. Flamy Grant is a drag queen who has been making waves in CCM with her chart-topping album Bible Belt...
by Kali Cawthon-Freels | Oct 25, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
In the fall of 2020, the original Broadway cast of the musical Hadestown released a holiday album entitled “If the Fates Allow.” It was a surprising musical offering from this group, as their show is a modernized retelling of the ancient Greek tragedy of Orpheus and...
by Kali Cawthon-Freels | Sep 20, 2023 | Faithful Pride Initiative, Feature|Opinion
I am incredibly excited to rewatch Barbie now that it’s available to stream. I thoroughly enjoyed it in theaters, and I can’t wait to catch what I missed the first time I saw it. The Barbie movie was a bright, vibrant, delightful jab at the patriarchy (Who doesn’t...
