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Jay Nash’s Letters From The Lost
Jay Nash’s new album Letters From The Lost came out today. Letters From The Lost is his tenth studio album and it’s darn good. Nash has been a steady, hardworking songwriter on the Americana scene. I hope that this will be the album that pushes him into the ranks of songwriters like Justin Townes Earle, … Continue reading
The Avett Brothers’ Tribute to Jason Molina
Jason Molina was a constant in folk/singer-songwriter music scene for the better part of fifteen years, putting out over a dozen albums between solo releases and his two bands, Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co. Actually, I haven’t listened to all that much of his music until recently. Kind of like Elliot Smith, who also died … Continue reading
The Relationship Between Art & Church
Today over at Christ and Pop Culture, I took a look at the ‘what’ and ‘why’ of the tricky relationship between art and evangelical Christianity. There is serious historical baggage that has led to current views of art within the church that are unhealthy. Beholding great art is often simply not attempted because of … Continue reading
Sorry for the Ghost Town: My Recent Writing
As the regular reader is well aware, in the last two months or so my GCC production has slowly grinded to a halt. This isn’t because I’ve given up the blogging game or abandoned the principle desires that begat GCC, but because most of my writing energy has gone to Christ and Pop Culture. Christ … Continue reading
GCC Reading for January 2013
Faulkner once said something to the effect that a good writer reads more than he writes. And since I am a significantly worse writer than Faulkner was (but I drink less), I am constantly looking for books to absorb. This month, with some Amazon gift cards burning holes in my pocket, I have decided to … Continue reading
Dostoyevsky on Passion 2013
Today at Christ and Pop Culture, I took on, in brevity, the issue of youthful zeal without commitment in young evangelicals today. The Passion conference seems to be a spiritual jump starter for thousands of young evangelicals, which is not always a bad thing. As a matter of fact, I have personally seen Passion and … Continue reading
Top 10 of 2012 (That aren’t from 2012 at all)
Okay, with all of these ‘year-end-best-of lists’ blogging us down (get it?), I kind of feel left out. Sure, I write for a blog that deals almost exclusively with popular (new) culture and I (in theory) run a blog about contemporary culture and timeless theology but lets get real: it’s hard to keep up. … Continue reading
The Misunderstood Sacrilege of Russian Punk Rock
The wincingly unpleasant situation in Moscow over the actions of the punk band Pussy Riot have been well covered and well followed for the better part of 2012. It all started when a few members from the Russian punk band Pussy Riot did a “fake prayer protest” inside of Christ the Savior Cathedral, a Russian … Continue reading
Morning After Blues: Sobering Up After The False Promises of The Election
After billions of dollars of campaign money, months of savage punditry and enough rhetoric to embitter most of the population, it’s all over. Twitter talk has died down while evangelical voters post tweets about the lordship of Jesus that they snarked at in the heat of the election and Obama voters gloat, as if the … Continue reading
The Return of Johnny Rotten
As the man behind the punk rock revolution, you would expect John “Johnny Rotten” Lydon to cling to his first and only big burst of fame in 1976-78. But Rotten, despite never loosing that pissed off, in your face attitude, has grown and evolved over the past four decades. Especially in the 80′s and early … Continue reading
