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Monthly Archives: February 2010Johnny Cash – Ain’t No Grave – A Theological ReviewJohnny Cash’s career is one for the ages – a story with the resonance of Moses: his grandparents immigrated from the Glasgow shipyards and he was born into poverty in the land of promise as the son of a share cropper yet gifted with a voice that could sing into the poverty in all of us as well as beyond that poverty into something more. He was a mentor to … There’s more to read here.
Posted in existential musings, Jesus, Johnny Cash, music, Music Writing, secular
Tagged existential musings, Johnny Cash, music, theology
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Your Neighbor’s Hymnal – finishing first draft – looking for songs about faith, hope and loveThis weekend I am rounding out my first rough (read: ROUGH) draft of my book project on theology and popular music entitled Your Neighbor’s Hymnal: What Pop Music can teach Christians about Faith, Hope and Love. The book is under contract with Cascade Books and I hope to have it ready for press by June 2010. If you are familiar with Nick Hornby’s 31 Songs, then you will be … There’s more to read here.
Posted in books, existential musings, music, Music Writing, Nick Hornby, secular, theology, U2
Tagged 31 Songs, books, Cascade Books, music, Nick Hornby, theology, Writing on Music
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Getting tenure, the ‘Big Lie’ and the role of facultyIn a series of articles published in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Thomas Benton (aka William Pannapacker, an associate professor of English at Hope College, a small Christian Reformed college in Holland, Michigan) has been raising a veritable army of angry adjuncts and underemployed PhDs through his revealing what he sees as “the Big Lie” of the academy – that universities are not telling the truth about employment prospects … There’s more to read here. The Telethon Revival and Hope for Haiti Now CD – A theological reviewRecently, George Clooney took a rather retro stab at the Haiti crisis by bring back what many considered a dead medium: the telethon. Jerry Lewis is perhaps the best known celebrities associated with the telethon model: taking over the broadcast space for a focused period of live entertainment. Part of what always made the ‘telethon’ such winning event was the strange alchemy of star power mixed with … There’s more to read here.
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Tagged Beyonce, George Clooney, Hope for Haiti, Madonna, music, Stevie Wonder, theology, U2, zoolander
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