From a back room concert to the purpose of the artist.
A composer and a conductor collaborate in the creation of music that moves.
A shorter catechism addressing seven big questions about music in God?s world.
What album is in your car stereo right now?
A review of James McMurtry's Too Long in the Wasteland.
A service honoring the command to love and exploring what it means to love well.
Calvin College?s choice to host a concert by Wilco?s Jeff Tweedy sparks interesting debate on fan sites.
An overview of the good stuff increasingly distributed through new technologies.
A U2 concert provides truth and healing in the midst of suffering.
What ever is the struggling Christian blues musician to name himself?
We often talk of seeing through another?s eyes, but here?s your chance to hear through another?s ears.
Make a quick mental list of what you would include and then?go!
A Sigur Rós concert raises questions about the tension between the artist's intention and the audience experience.
A review of the music of Sigur R?s.
A review of Susan Enan's five-song EP.
On live performance space as "third place."
Life after college generates questions about a vision.
What happens when "the world" enters your sub-culture?
Andrew Beaujon's Body Piercing Saved My Life explores CCM culture from an outsider perspective.
A review of the Cornerstone Festival 2006.
A move to Pennsylvania from Michigan inspires a meaningful mix CD.
The exquisitely melancholy love songs of Leonard Cohen.
Reflections of a Hospice chaplain a few days later.
An overview of events worth penciling in to your 2007 and 2008 calendar.
Or, more accurately, my favorite albums from 2006 so far (in no particular order).
How acts of creativity become holy, become prayer.
Pop and folk have their places, to be sure, but there's something different going on in rock 'n roll.
On what a child's approach to music can teach us oldies.
A fascination with Sacred Harp singing is more than just a cultural curiosity.
Experiences as a supply pastor in many churches prompts reflection on two types of worship services.