Susannah and Peter discuss Peter’s lead editorial, “Hoping for Doomsday,” and cover some of the mysteries at the heart of Apocalypse: is it the end of the world? Why is it hopeful? What does it mean? What does it take to allow the supernatural hope of the New Heavens and the New Earth give your life meaning now, and what’s going on with Christians’ addiction to apocalyptic date-setting?

Then they have a conversation with Ivan Rusyn, the president of the Ukrainian Evangelical Theological Seminary in Kyiv, whose wartime experience has included sneaking back to his home in occupied Bucha to bring help to his neighbors.

He describes the current state of the conflict and calls on Christians to help with pressing needs; he also describes the incredibly powerful experience of Christian and civic unity that the war has led to in Kyiv and across Ukraine.

Joseph Julián González and Monique González write that for the ancient Nahua and Aztec poets, the way to the holy runs through beauty.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan writes on good and bad music, morals, and why the sheer vitality of music can seem to spell danger.

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Composer Steven Michael Newby says African American spirituals aren’t just for Black churches. They are for everybody.

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Joseph M. Keegin explores Christian Hardcore music and its undoing.

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In this article drawn from her memoir With or Without Me, Esther Maria Magnis tells how her prayers were not answered when her father got cancer. Or were they?

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Benjamin Crosby on how hymn singing can help revive a culture of communal music.

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Phil Christman finds community and catharsis in the YouTube comments to Joy Division and other post punk and new wave music.

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Peter Mommsen on how singing and making (not just listening to) music shapes the soul.

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Mary Townsend on how the excellence of Dolly Parton helps her students understand Aristotle’s Nicomachean ethics.

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