Category: music
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rednoW’s top 10 lists
You can’t look anywhere this time of year without stumbling onto a “Top-10” or “Best of 2007” list. I could point towards a number of different lists that I’ve enjoyed looking at the past couple of weeks, but since I do some writing for rednoW.com, I’ll point out a few of the lists we’ve pulled…
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golden compass, sigur ros, and sister wynona carr
I love the sense when you’re on a road trip that you might find or discover something interesting or wonderful. We found a few gems tonight. Maggie and I arrived in Effingham this evening around 6:00. It took some looking, but we found the local movie theater in time to watch The Golden Compass. We’ve…
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some saturday distractions
(Pastors) Ray, Glenn, Steve, and David as you hoped you’d never see them: dancing in elf costumes. Thanks Julie. My PCC friend Edgar recommends the following films portraying aspects Biblical and Christian history: Zeferelli’s Jesus of Nazareth. Still the best portrayal overall of the Gospel story. A cast of many great actors, and Rod Steigert…
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favorite christmas albums
Every year when Maggie and I pull out the decorations I get excited about hearing some albums I haven’t heard since last Christmas. Most of these records are pretty traditional, choirs and orchestras, which I really like this time of year. But there are four albums that I come back to more than the rest.…
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random links
John Stackhouse on advent, repentance, and forgiveness. Christian repentance and forgiveness avoids both sentimentality and cynicism. It is, instead, realistic. Repenting and forgiving are not pretending the past didn’t happen and that what seemed evil is somehow okay. Repentance and forgiveness name what was wrong as wrong. If it weren’t wrong, it wouldn’t need repenting…
David W. Swanson 