Monthly Archives: September 2014

“To love is to trust someone else with one’s heart, and that is quite a burden for a child to bear.”

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When we tell teens that the ultimate purpose of chaste behavior is to make sex and marriage satisfying, we invite them to judge every act in pragmatically hedonistic terms.

When listening to punk rock, and when speaking with my “scene” friends, I encountered a subversive mix of the sacred and profane amidst the roughness, anger, and rebellion.

The true force of Lamar’s understanding of life is that he has no space for a divide between theology and lived life.

The Internet has restored pop music to a place where it can bring generations together instead of driving them apart, even if your grandma still hasn’t heard of the rap DJ who’s almost as old as she is.

Learning hospitality and gratitude at a party.

The Church’s songs convey its beliefs about God, but they also convey its beliefs about God’s world.

We latch on to certain bands to the point where they become a concrete marker in our lives. With each release we catalog details about our lives at the time–and often how the music was present in those moments. Jars of Clay has always been that band for me.