The Intersection of Faith and Culture
I was going to title this “Free Music Tuesday,” but that headline lacks in ring, doesn’t it? I should probably save the free music posts for Friday. But I don’t know how long this free spell is going to last on the entire catalogue from this Denver, Co. band, who […]
Ivan & Alyosha builds their legend, one thoughtful, exuberant pop song at a time. Despite nods from Filter, Spinner and National Public Radio, Ivan & Alyosha retains a thin veil of fashionable obscurity. This is probably due to the band’s patience in building its fan base, anthill-style, from the foundation […]
All the conversations I’ve had with readers (and viewers) of Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz suggest that it occasioned in its church-based audience something akin to Roberta Flack’s lyrics in “Killing Me Softly.” I was about to say that I wish I could relate. In fact, I tend to spend […]
Most of us sit in an office or stand behind a counter — somewhere in the anonymous middle of wherever we live — for about eight hours a day. We’re told to do things, and we do them, and money comes every two weeks in the mail, and we spend […]
“You up? Feeling frisky?” When I was a kid — nine or maybe ten — my Sunday school class was taught by Ellen, an inordinately tall woman with fat elbows and a bowl haircut. She wore oblong glasses with rust-tinted lenses and highwater pleated pants. Ellen was what my […]
“I think that the church put expectations on my parents, resulting in my parents being extremely self-conscious with every thing they (and their kids) did.” “In many ways, I feel like I’m still a kid who’s angry at my parents. That becomes less and less defensible the older you get. […]