Isn’t the Light OK?

I want this CD!
(cour­tesy the Wit­ten­burg Door, via BHT)

There’s an inter­est­ing essay about CCM and how most of us tend to lis­ten to music that agrees with our own world­view up at Sty­lus Mag­a­zine. It’s actu­ally more of a per­sonal “how I stopped lis­ten­ing to youth group music” essay, but it’s really well done.
My favorite part:
Fun fact: in 2000, art-punks Wire released their limited-edition […]

Tim Chal­lies has done some inves­ti­gat­ing into a mar­ket­ing tech­nique that was sup­pos­edly a large part of the suc­cess of Rick Warren’s Pur­pose Dri­ven Life book/church program/phenomenon. There’s noth­ing like a lit­tle con­spir­acy for a Mon­day morn­ing!
I’ve been more and more uneasy about the level of pop­u­lar­ity and acclaim this book has received lately, and […]

Search­ing for more infor­ma­tion on the recent album that’s become my new favorite (despite my lack of art­work and meta­data), I came across the fol­low­ing “review”:
…the inspi­ra­tional Bring My Courage Back, with ser­mo­niz­ing lyrics that fea­ture Ben Folds and Kristin Mooney on back­ground vocals… Phillips has built on his pre­vi­ous releases, 2001’s Abu­lum and 2003’s […]

Some of you (OK…just Geof) have won­dered about my recent lack of online activ­ity. Well, let me tell ya…things have been crazy around here.
The biggest thing hap­pen­ing for us right now is that we’re buy­ing a house. Our offer was accepted on Mon­day for a late 1800’s farm­house in Rich­mond, Maine. We just met with […]