Category Archives: Music

Three Souls Well

Here’s a treat from three amazing artists: “It Is Well With my Soul” with more vocals than anything else. Three minutes and forty-two seconds well-spent.

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In the Shadow of the Day

I was helping a friend get his car to the shop earlier this week.  While driving around the west part of town, this song came on the radio.  I was glad the window was down and the breeze was cool. … Continue reading

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Memory Perfect, Imperfect

One thing Smallville did for me all those years ago was to introduce me to the music of Remy Zero.  They’re the band behind the show’s opening credits song, “Save Me,” which is just one of a number of great … Continue reading

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Song for the Weekend

From the July 1997 Cornerstone Festival.  Mullins’s The Jesus Record is a good and appropriate album for this weekend.

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Singular Song

I started the week with my favorite song from Steven Curtis Chapman’s new album, Worship and Believe.  Thought I’d close out the week in a similar fashion.  Here’s “One True God,” a song that retells the biblical story and points … Continue reading

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Who You Say We Are

This past weekend saw the release of Steven Curtis Chapman’s latest, a worship album called Worship and Believe.  The two terms in the title hang together awkwardly.  We might think that the reverse is the appropriate order: believe and worship. … Continue reading

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To Market, To Market (or: we are the data)

The spring of great reading has sprung.  The local Barnes & Noble had a few copies of Douglas Rushkoff’s new book, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus.  In this video, he talks about markets (medieval) and marketing (way too modern). … Continue reading

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A High-Five Story

Here’s an interesting video from the folks at Laity Lodge.  It involves one of my favorite writers (James K. A. Smith) and one of my favorite musicians (Andy Gullahorn).  It’s a slightly awkward video, as it might seem to make … Continue reading

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Answering in the Affirmative

Friday morning, the first song in the morning’s shuffle was Toad the Wet Sprocket’s “Is It for Me.”  As I walked around my classroom rearranging tables to prepare for student presentations and thought about the lyrics’ hope that odd things … Continue reading

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Let There Be Light, Love, and Music

One of the songs Andrew Peterson played (and that he had the audience join in with) at his Hawaii concert last month was “Let There Be Light.”  It wasn’t a song that I had listened to much (if at all) … Continue reading

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