Isn’t the Light OK?

Michael Spencer, aka the Inter­net Monk, has writ­ten a cool lit­tle short story that, being a for­mer leader of a church cof­fee­house min­istry, I can com­pletely iden­tify with:
internetmonk.com » The Cof­fee­house: A Story
The cof­fee­house isn’t really the point, of course. To me, what stands out is the idea of work­ing within the sys­tem to ulti­mately change the […]

Joe Tay­lor at SpinMe sums up some ideas telling aspir­ing musi­cians to “Be the Change You Want to See in the Music Indus­try.”
Sounds famil­iar…must be some­thing in the blo­gos­phere air. I also like this quote:
It takes the same amount of energy to com­plain about some­thing as it does to make a change.
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I was check­ing out the new Gomez album couretsy of Rhap­sody and their “25 free plays” web­site deal (great album, by the way) when it occurred to me — we’re on Rhap­sody.
So, for all you who haven’t heard our last CD, Prodi­gal Songs, yet, now you can lis­ten to it, in its entirety, for free […]

Andrew Osenga, one of my favorite song­writ­ers in the Chris­t­ian realm has some ques­tions about what peo­ple really want to hear in Chris­t­ian music. If you’ve fol­lowed any of my CCM rants in the past, you know this is a sub­ject that gets me very…uh…passionate. And yet, for some rea­son, I can’t bring myself to […]

If any of you lis­ten to Etcetera, you’ll hear my voice some­one iden­ti­fy­ing them­selves as me call­ing in about halfway through today’s episode. I hereby dis­avow any­thing I said this per­son may have said about me, espe­cially involv­ing cer­tain types of films and hav­ing stu­dios in which to make them. I’m glad to have finally […]