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King and Kingdom: Thoughts on N. T. Wright
LAST NIGHT AT CHURCH we sang Psalm 82, with one verse saying: “Arise, O God, and rule the earth, for you shall take all nations for your own.” This psalm, I teach my sophomores, would be known as an enthronement … Continue reading
Monsters (go to) University
JUST IN TIME FOR this weekend’s release of Brave, Disney-Pixar has released a teaser trailer for Monsters University. When Monsters Inc came out, I had no real sense of what the movie was to be about, and I was genuinely … Continue reading
U2 and the Full-Circle Song
MY FIRST REAL U2 ALBUM was 2000’s All That You Can’t Leave Behind. Years after my brother tortured me with his music (often with Rattle and Hum in his truck), I found a respect for the band and bought some … Continue reading
New Song Saturday: Eric Peters
LAST SATURDAY I posted a link to the latest song by Andrew Peterson. Today I post a link to an artist known in Peterson’s circle but who is often just outside my own circle of listening: Eric Peters. Eric Peters … Continue reading
Closing Time (of Your Life)
SOME SAY THAT SERENDIPITY IS DEAD thanks to our hyper-connected internet culture. Much of the time, I agree with those sentiments. Then there are other times, though, where you follow the white rabbit from link to link and find something … Continue reading
Donald Miller Would Be Proud?
ONE OF THE THINGS said by Donald Miller at the Storyline conference that I attended in Portland was that “we live in a world of way too much, so we have to fight to keep our stories clean.” Miller said … Continue reading
The Emotional Make-Up of Muppets
ONE OF THE HIGH POINTS of last year’s The Muppets movie (and there were many), was the song between Walter and Gary, “Man or Muppet.” It was an Oscar-winning song (admittedly in a slow music year), but it was also … Continue reading
New Song Saturday: Andrew Peterson
A FEW DAYS AGO I posted an entry on Grantland’s “Top 10 Songs in Christian Rock.” In it, I commented that I don’t listen to much Christian music these days apart from particular artists (many of them out of Nashville). … Continue reading
Remembering Ray Bradbury (and reading him, too)
I CAME LATE TO THE RAY BRADBURY PARTY. It was a couple of years ago. Donald Miller had spoken highly of Bradbury’s collection of essays on writing: Zen and the Art of Writing. Somewhere around there I found my way … Continue reading
Musical Genre Revisit
CHRISTIAN MUSIC has changed a lot since I lived near a decent CCM radio station (and even then, things were changing fast). I still listen to a handful of artists, though most of them are now independent music makers living … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 