You Know What I Did Last Summer
Summers are special times for professors. At the start of them, we make implausibly grandiose plans about what we are going to accomplish during them. At the end of them, we wonder where the time has...
View ArticleDo We Need To Put God Back In The Weather (Channel)?
A friend shared this on Facebook: I have commented on many occasions before on the noteworthy fact that most religious believers are secularists when it comes to the weather. Even the few who offer...
View ArticleU2charist
On the Friday before Spring break, my class on the Bible covered the Psalms, and so the U2 song “40” got a mention. I was apparently the only one there who had ever sung the song in church. I hope that...
View ArticleGrace
I mentioned previously that, challenged with coming up with a list of the core beliefs of my church, the members basically only agreed on one word: grace. And so I am grateful to Dănuţ Mănăstireanu for...
View ArticleA Service of “Sacred” Music/Rock Prayers
I’m not sure what to call the service that we’ve put together for next Sunday at Crooked Creek Baptist Church. But the service will feature a lot of music that we’ve never performed in church before,...
View ArticleA Service of Sacred Music and Rock Prayers
The service yesterday, featuring rock music, went well, I thought. It was recorded, and so I thought I would share it for those who may be interested, in particular those who wished they could have...
View ArticleBono and the Psalms
Having organized a service that incorporated music by U2, I was excited to see soon afterwards that Bono was collaborating with Eugene Peterson on a project focused on the Psalms. See recent pieces in...
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