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I backtracked from “Monster Truck Eucharist” into churchmarketingsucks.com. This is one thoughtful response to being church in a medium-as-message culture (another being the old “SMASH EVERYTHING!” response), but I think my favorite thing about them is the concession they’ve made in creating a mirror site called churchmarketingstinks.com, (although they provide a lengthy apologetic for the [...]

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Sara Groove

I started this review of Sara Groves’ “Add to the Beauty” several months ago. Now that I see it will never be finished, and that its proximity to the album’s release makes it superfluous, I’m just posting it out of lack of will to burn it at the altar of good practice. In fact, I [...]

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The Bono of Christ, Broken for You

Behold! The U2 Eucharist!

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Mind the Gap (Band)

This is the kind of stuff I wish I could find in wallpaper. For real walls.
I might have arranged a few things differently, but I love this.

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This Is the Title of This Post

Which Is Also Found Several Times in the Post Itself.
And this is a link to a self-referential critique of the use of self-reference, in case you didn’t click it already. Written by a mathematician. This is.
(Having a blog is going to save millions of bytes in forwards.)

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You’d make a fine little helper. What’s your name?

I have to stop reading celebrity playlists. What’s worse than having practically no shared tracks with Ben Folds? Finding out that you pretty much have most of Mandy Moore’s favorite music on your iPod (Hem, Sufjan, Joni Mitchell, Jeff Buckley, Patty Griffin, Imogen Heap. . .). What’s worse than that? Finding not only Bjork, Buckley, [...]

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Not fixated, just surrounded

Holy crap. Or, as Stan Hauerwas would say,
“In general, I hate Christian rock music. But now I have heard the songs of Derek Webb. Webb’s songs are free of the pietistic sentimentality that usually characterizes popular Christian music. His music, like the Gospel, is at once hard, edgy, and beautiful.” STANLEY HAUERWAS, author , [...]

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Webb of Paste

I’ve always liked Derek Webb, in theory. In some ways, the same is true for Paste Magazine, but I actually pay them to keep me (pre)occupied. Paste leads their review of Webb’s “Mockingbird” album,
“The genre of Contemporary Christian music has grown so bereft of craft and substance that it’s a stretch to call it Christian [...]

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Oh.

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