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Saturday Song: “Then you make me crawl”
A song appropriate for the end of the week.
Saturday Song: “Yet to be Sung”
We’re just over a month away from the new Death Cab for Cutie album, Kintsugi. Once again Ben Gibbard and company do a great job of taking sobering lyrics with interesting musical compositions. Here’s the video for the first single, … Continue reading
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Parks and Remembrance: 5,000 Candles
In honor of tonight’s finale to NBC’s Parks & Recreation, here’s the big finale to the show’s sixth season. It was a perfect ending to the series, bringing together lots of little things from the show’s history: in this case, … Continue reading
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Saturday Song: “We are people born of sound . . .”
I recently started a reread of Tolkien’s Silmarillion. The first section, which recounts the creation of the world, is beautiful. It involves the creation of all things through music. Genesis 1 also speaks of the creation of the world, this … Continue reading
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Saturday Song: Brother’s Keeper
This week I’ve been listening to Rich Mullins’ Brother’s Keeper. The title track is succinct and wonderfully pointed at something I find extremely difficult but somehow necessary. “Unless you’re pointing to the truth,” indeed.
A Common Confession
Yesterday I rambled on a bit about The Pilgrim’s Progress and starting from a common place (as seen in the story with the Wicket Gate). How good it is, I think, for us to sing about that which is common … Continue reading
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Christmas Party with Chris Rice
I spent last Christmas wondering whatever happened to Chris Rice, whose music played a big part in my college experience. Finally found him on Twitter, which led me to this new song written for the Christmas season, “Christmas Party.” Always … Continue reading
A Cappella in the High Countries
My Faith & Literature class is reading C. S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce as our final major work of the course. It’s a brilliant book, one that I’ve bought multiple copies of. Caedmon‘s Call recorded a Sandra McCracken-written song based … Continue reading
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Yes, I Want to Thank Someone
Few songs get it as right as Andrew Peterson’s “Don’t You Want to Thank Someone,” and I’m thankful that he has put together a video for it, even though it’s an edit (the original is almost 10 minutes long). I … Continue reading
Being on Someone’s Side, in Good or Bad
Friendship in the grown-up world is still something of mystery to me, but I am thankful for the music of Andrew Osenga, which often reminds me of the challenge to love and be loved.
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