Readers of this blog over the past year will know that there is no other music on the planet which has gripped me as deeply or as tenaciously as that of Sufjan Stevens. At the Philly show from his recent “Butterfly Brigade” tour I felt that I was seeing all of the eschatological, already/not yet [...]

At a special colloquium entitled “Biblical Matters: Biblical Reflections on ‘Going Global’” held this morning, James W. Skillen and Carl F. Ellis, Jr., each delivered impassioned pleas that the Church of Jesus Christ needs to be aware of and speak into all of life. The meeting at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia was sponsored by [...]

Anyone close to me over the past year can tell you that I have put the fanatical back into fan with my undying obsession with the music of Sufjan Stevens. Last month my daughter Hannah poured gasoline on that fire by announcing that she was gifting Karyn and me with tickets to see The Man [...]

On July 11 former Caedmon’s Call front man Derek Webb announced that his latest album, Mockingbird, will be made available as a free download at www.freederkewebb.com. The free download of the entire album in mp3 format will begin September 1, 2006 and continue for three months.
On his main site (www.derekwebb.com), Webb said that he was [...]

By now it certainly must be common knowledge that the much awaited-ballyhooed-feared-loathed Da Vinci Code movie is the softest punching bag the critics have had since Ishtar.
But no reviewer, no matter how sharp his #2 Eberhard-Faber, could possibly outdo the iMonk as he goes all MST3K on the DVC! (Rated H for Hilarious Content)

Columnist and culture watcher Dick Staub weighs in on what he views as the growing but not unexpected evangelical hysteria over the approaching Day of Doom: May 19 (AKA the release date of The Da Vinci Code movie).
Read his column here.
Of particular interest to me are his comments about the encouragement of a continued “us [...]

I’ve added a new link to my “regular reads” section to the right. (I’ve changed the name to “regular reads” from “daily reads” so I’m not lying anymore.)
If you like good writing from a thoughtful Christian, try out Culture Makers, the site for the collected writings of Andy Crouch. You may not agree with everything [...]

My friend Drew Trotter got to spend a day in Narnia…the film set that is! Drew was invited on the set of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the feature film (to be released this December) based on C. S. Lewis’ Narnia Chronicles. He wrote about his experience in Christianity Today magazine. The article [...]

Oh yes…I plan to be there! Bill Mallonee has become my all-time favorite singer-songwriter, someone who has never written a song I didn’t like (and hes’ written tons!). I’ve seen him before solo, but never with his legendary band Vigilantes of Love, just recently re-formed.
Click the poster above for more info on this show and [...]