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Top Ten Albums of 2010 – a season of light and a season of darkness

Posted on December 6, 2010 by senseijfk

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”  So wrote Charles Dickens in the opening line to The Tale of Two Cities.  And yet this is only the beginning.  As the rest of the sentence continues:

it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of

… There’s more to read here.

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Metallica and making sense of death in the after-church world

Posted on August 4, 2010 by senseijfk

One of the most difficult things about being a pastor is death.  No… strike that.

One of realities of being human is death.

No… strike that as well.

Here, let me try this:  one of the hardest things about being ANY human is knowing what to say and think about death.

Better… we will go with that and move on.

Today I officiated a memorial service for a 30 year women who … There’s more to read here.

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Finding God, Finding Radiohead – Amanda Palmer gets the missional quote of the week

Posted on June 2, 2010 by senseijfk

There are just some things that when you encounter them, you go “Oh…yeah… that is just so weird that it must be divinely inspired.”  For me, those things include the Smokey Bacon Maple Bar at Frost Donuts in Mill Creek, genre defying movies such as Repo Man, The Big Lewbowski and The Princess Bride to name but a few, and anytime either a banjo or ukulele gets some serious … There’s more to read here.

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Johnny Cash – Ain’t No Grave – A Theological Review

Posted on February 27, 2010 by senseijfk

Johnny 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.

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Your Neighbor’s Hymnal – finishing first draft – looking for songs about faith, hope and love

Posted on February 20, 2010 by senseijfk

This 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.

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