A long time ago, words were spoken over me that have stayed with me throughout my life. I doubt she would remember me and I can't even...

We love helping introduce excellent new art to the world. We've covered rapper, musician, and thinker Phillip Joubert before, gaining his...

In the first moments of Adam Whipple's new EP, out now on Apple Music and Spotify, listeners are invited into a more more intimate space

Whenever a new and exciting artist shows up in Knoxville, I’m guilty of casting backhanded aspersions at my current hometown. “Why are...

My friend Emily and I sat across from each other at a nearby breakfast place one morning during the spring of 2018, and I described to...

Some time ago, we featured an interview with Knoxville songwriter, rapper, and preacher Phillip Joubert. This past year, Phillip joined...

Journalists write about touch deprivation, lack of socialization and other trends ... Is anyone asking what happens when we can’t sing?

Arthur Alligood is both my friend and a hero of mine. Watching friends press through the vicissitudes of the artistic process—and...

Author's note: I’m so excited to bring you my conversation with my friend Phillip Joubert. Phillip is a rapper out of New York and...

I've always seen myself as this heady, angsty, funny, important powerhouse of a performer, who writes for super-smart audiences of adults...

When I was twelve, my family moved from the only home I knew, and one of the songs my parents played on repeat during that time was Ron ...

For years now, Jennifer Daniels has been performing her Southern-gothic brand of roots rock, captivating audiences and plumbing the...

You’ve probably heard enough about coronavirus and COVID-19 by this time. Or maybe you’re watching the CNN crawl nonstop, eating up every...

How the Mark Heard Tribute Album Changed Music For Me There are two songwriting giants in the Christian music world. I mean, sure, we’ve...

Tonight is the night! WORD + SONG is here! In celebration, we’re giving you another little preview of what’s going down this evening in...

It’s a great time to give you a preview of things to come! Matthew Clark, one of the three featured artists headlining Foundling House’s...

For quite some time now, we at Foundling House have been interested not only in putting worthwhile words together with discerning...

Seasons in life are rarely solely about what you think they’re about. Last August, I had just gotten through my first year of being...

There are a number of quarries in and around Knoxville where lanky, dusty men used to blast marble out of the hills before the...

This is a collection of laments I wrote for a worship service I led with a friend in my church. Modern worship is a bit too positive...

First things first: spoiler alert. This is going to get messy, because I got messy. I got the last good seat at the 9:30 showing of...

On Good Friday, Bill Wolf and a gigantic cadre of musicians brought Wolf’s Easter: Stories & Songs show back home to Knoxville. It was...

This week leading up to Easter is referred to as Holy Week, or Passion Week, in many of our Christian traditions. We set aside this week...

I met my then-future wife in college. Our first date was on December 17, 1996, and just a few days afterward, we each went home for...

Dave and Licia Radford, known musically as The Gray Havens, are making the kind of music you don’t know you need until you hear it. There...

Introductions matter. In the exuberant craze to dive into a book or novel, we tend to negate Authorial intent and blow past a book’s...

Screenshot from the video for “Snow” by Sleeping at Last The day before December began, my grandma slipped into eternity. She’d spent 100...

Every year, for the past several circles around the sun, the community known as The Rabbit Room has convened in a rich and elaborate...

Editors note: This series was first published at Biblical Counseling Through Song. It is our hope that sharing this journey of heartache...

Don’t listen to that insipid little voice that tells you no one cares what you’re doing. And don’t regret obeying your own intuition.

My first introduction to Arthur Alligood’s work was his stripped-down acoustic album The Shadow Can’t Have Me. The honesty in his lyrics...

The Lord God, our Word, pressed round wild David, Brought to bloom within the cathedral of Mary. He is Spring reigniting—the glory of...

Charlotte Brontë’s masterwork Jane Eyre is something most of us read in grade school. We remember the gilded Victorian prose laid over...

Dave Trout is the busy head of one of our favorite organizations here at Foundling House, UTR Media. For years, Dave has been spinning...

Joy Ike’s new record is going to take you places; your only job is to enjoy the ride. Ike’s fourth full-length studio production, Bigger...

Chris and Jenna Badeker are calling it quits. Kind of. The husband and wife duo have been playing shows as Chris & Jenna for years in...

An Interview with Son of Laughter Carrie Givens: One of the things I love about your music as Son of Laughter is what I would call its...

Over this last year I have found myself grumbling more than usual. I have always had a cup half-full personality. Yet, I became lost in...

The holiday season passed with a flurry of shredded wrapping paper, sugar comas, and age-old family traditions. A shiny new year with...

When I was a kid, I had to write a book report in Senior English. Ms. Southern gave us a list of famous novels and works several pages...

We’re excited to give you another episode in our film series. This time, we’ve partnered with Robert Allen at The War Room to bring you a...

Adam Whipple plays a house show in East Tennessee. Loyal readers might remember we ran a review from John Barber of Adam Whipple’s new...

Don’t listen to Adam Whipple’s new record if you’re going through something hard. I mean, seriously, don’t. Don’t listen unless you’re...

I was in my parents’ kitchen when I heard the news. It was twenty years ago, but I still remember standing in the tight space between the...

We remember being kids in the seventies and eighties, and some of us raised kids or had young siblings during the nineties. The Muppets...

For the fourth year in a row, The WordPlayers are bringing a musical production to the historic Bijou Theatre in downtown Knoxville....

It somehow makes sense that The Mosleys marked the year of their new record with a family move, from the only home their children have...

My daughter Laurel told me how wearing exercise clothes can make you want to exercise, so I bought the uniform of the runner—leggings—and...

Once in a while, you run across people doing good work, and you ask yourself: Why isn’t everybody excited about this? Much of that good...

We’re still excited at the success of Echo Hill, our latest venture, and we thought we’d take the time to look into what we’re doing here...