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In Defense of Playlists

June 20th, 2025 | 6 min read

By Thomas Sieberhagen, Brewer Eberly, and Josh Weir

We are just old enough to know how to burn a CD. When your hand-me-down first car only had a CD player, burning CDs became an essential skill. Those CDs were our first experiments in custom playlists. It was thrilling when a trusted friend gave you a silver disc with “Great Songs” sloppily sharpied on the front. Inevitably, those songs were great—all the greater because they had been shared by a friend.

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Thomas Sieberhagen, Brewer Eberly, and Josh Weir

Thomas Sieberhagen is a PhD student at KU Leuven, where he pastors a church in French-speaking Belgium. Brewer Eberly is a family physician and McDonald Agape Fellow serving the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Fellowship at Duke Divinity School. Josh Weir is a DevOps engineer with ClickDimensions. They have been best friends for 15 years.