When Worship Is Resistance: Hymn for the 81%
It is a love song to the church and a call to repentance.
Is Jesus King of Kanye’s Bank Account?
What’s just as important as the lyrical content of Kanye’s album is what he does in the wake of it.
Singing Praise to God, Not America
JUNE 30, 2014 | BY: CRAIG M. WATTS -- There is an often told apocryphal story of the little boy in a worship service who was seated beside...
Are You Bold As Love?
MAY 31, 2014 | BY: STEPHEN JARNICK -- From a very young age music has played a major role in my spiritual development. To be honest, singing...
"Alone Yet Not Alone" by Joni Eareckson Tada Needs to Be Heard
FEB 11, 2014 | BY: LINDA BRENDLE -- When the nominations for the upcoming Academy Awards were announced, there was a surprise...
Entertainment Christianity
JUNE 11, 2013 | BY: STEPHEN MATTSON -- A Christian’s worst nightmare isn’t bad theology, hypocrisy or heresy—it’s boredom. Westernized...
The Worship Wars
One reason churches are splitting these days is over forms of worship. There are those who contend that we are not going to bring in a new generation of young people unless we introduce into the worship service...
This Train: Songs of the Civil Rights Movement
“I’m not black,
but there’s a whole lot of times
I wish I could say I’m not white.”
-Frank Zappa
The history and progress of civil rights in America has never been easy, and many times it has been downright ...
Nevermind the Nonsense (Ode to Jesus & Johnny Rotten)
The notorious, belligerent, somewhat anti-social punk rocker Johnny Rotten, at the end of his final live show with his band the Sex Pistols, yelled out to the audience, “ever get the feeling you've been ch...
The Worship is Over but the Service is About to Begin
There are people who go to the symphony and clap because they know that’s what they are supposed to do at the end of the concert, but the music has no value to them. It is when the music inhabits the listener...