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New Music Wednesday: Rend Collective Experiment
CONFESSION: I really don’t care for contemporary worship music. Part of it is a matter of content and style. Another part of it is that I blame worship music for doing away with other kinds of Christian radio that I … Continue reading
Twenty Years Leaving Like Elijah
IT’S NOT OFTEN that I sit around and browse YouTube. It’s usually like shopping for me: know what you want when you set out. When it does happen that I peruse for a long time, it’s mostly looking at music, … Continue reading
Travel and Rich Mullins’ America
THERE WAS A MOMENT, a few months ago driving somewhere between Portland, Oregon and the coast at Haystack, when Rich Mullins was playing and the fields were green and the sky was a battle of blue and white and I … Continue reading
Finding (More Than) Nemo
“JUST KEEP SWIMMING” is the line most remembered and quoted from Disney/Pixar’s Finding Nemo. When I saw the movie again in 3-D this past weekend, I knew that would be the moment that all of the kids and many of … Continue reading
Gandalf, Donald Miller, and Fear
THERE’S A MOMENT in the newest trailer for The Hobbit where Galadriel asks Gandalf, “Why the halfling?” Of the many he could call to action, why a hobbit who has never left home should go on such a dangerous adventure? … Continue reading
Resting Easy with Andrew Peterson
THESE ARE GOOD TIMES, MUSICALLY. New music from the Avett Brothers, The Killers, Mumford & Sons, and Ben Gibbard are dropping almost every week. The goodness started a few weeks ago with the newest release from Andrew Peterson. His new … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Internet, Music
Tagged Andrew Peterson, Light for the Lost Boy, Rest Easy
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Donald Miller and Revisiting Your Storyline
THE MISSION OF DONALD MILLER has definitely evolved over the last ten years, yet the seeds of “telling a good story with your life” can be found at least as far back as Blue Like Jazz. Starting next week, Miller … Continue reading
Love Stories, Ghost Stories, and David Foster Wallace
I HAD FORGOTTEN that a full-length biography of David Foster Wallace was on the way. I’m not as much of a fan as DFW as I should be: I have yet to read my way through Infinite Jest. But I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Faith, Internet
Tagged David Foster Wallace, Every Love Story is a Ghost Story
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Brand Name Theologians
SOME TIME AGO I was grabbing lunch with a co-worker down at Subway. We were talking about the book that I had gotten him, the most recent book by N. T. Wright. Another guy in the line overheard our conversation. … Continue reading
The Dangerous Power of Story
‘STORY’ HAS BEEN A HOT TOPIC lately. Has been for some time, honestly. It’s also been a big topic for the folks over at Christianity Today, as well. The concept, so true to human experience and history, has made its … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Internet, Teaching
Tagged Donald Miller, N. T. Wright, Narrative Theology, Story
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