Category: music
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Weekend Reading
How about another video edition of this weekly post? Have a great weekend. Our local CBS station ran a story, “A Talk of Two Black Churches,” that highlights a trend I’ve heard folks talk about in Bronzeville, where our new church is located. Many in the African American community are alarmed that congregations of older…
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Mumford and Sons
More than a few times this year I’ve found a Mumford and Sons song to be just the right pick-me-up. Love that will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free; be more like the man you were made to be. There is a design, an alignment to cry, at my…
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The Johnny Cash Project
This is the best thing I’ve seen online in some time. From The Johnny Cash Project, Ain’t No Grave is Johnny’s final studio recording. The album and its title track deal heavily with themes of mortality, resurrection, and everlasting life. The Johnny Cash Project pays tribute to these themes. Through the love and contributions of…
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our 2009 favorites
A couple of weeks ago I asked about your favorite books/films/ and albums of 2009. Here are your suggestions: Books Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof. Welcoming the Stranger by Matthew Soerens and Jenny Hwang. Forgotten God by Francis Chan. Films Up. The Blind Side. Where the Wild Things Are. Albums It’s All Crazy!…
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happy saturday: hyde park records
Where do you go to buy your music? OK, that question assumes a few things. A) You buy rather than steal (or whatever the appropriate euphemism is) your music. B) You remain interested enough in new music to purchase the occasional album. C) You’re old-school enough to buy a non-digitally downloaded album now and then,…
David W. Swanson 