Isn’t the Light OK?

This may not help any of you who have decided to limit your time on the com­puter dur­ing Lent (and if that describes you, then what are you doing here any­way?), but the web min­istry of The Grace Place is putting together a series of Lenten devo­tional mul­ti­me­dia pieces called 40 Days of Love. (Windows […]

I can’t believe I for­got to men­tion this, but a few weeks ago, John and I saw Queen. I could wax (Bohemian?) rhap­sodic about the whole thing — I mean, it was an incred­i­ble show — and go into details about how the music of Queen defined our lives (a la my “Salad Diaries” posts […]

Andrew Osenga points out a well-written, even handed arti­cle about his old band The Nor­mals and how dif­fi­cult it is to make a liv­ing writ­ing hon­est music in the Chris­t­ian music indus­try.
Under­neath that arti­cle is yet another exam­ple of how the CCM indus­try is by and large com­pletely anti­thet­i­cal to any impulse of true art, […]

I’d like to think that I was was a cat­a­lyst for this, con­sid­er­ing the ongo­ing pop­u­lar­ity of my Knife Show post:
Wikipedia entry on Tom O’Dell

There’s a huge open field that I pass by each night on my com­mute home. For months now, all I’ve ever been able to see as I drive past is the shad­ows of trees in the dis­tance and the sky only slightly lighter than the shad­ows as twi­light descends and night takes over.
Yes­ter­day was the first […]