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Frankenstein piano + looping = beautiful music

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Poll results: How should worship music relate to culture?

We started a poll a couple months back asking, “In general, how should worship music relate to culture?” Here are the results, which show % of total voters, not votes, since you could choose more than one answer. (That’s why it adds up to more than 100%) 34% – Counter-cultural in some ways 29% – [...]

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Church sub-culture strikes again, release Christian Guitar Hero knockoff

I guess there’s nothing wrong with this, it’s just really cheesy. My friends and I had joked about a christian version and we should have known it was happen sooner or later. Rocking to Chris Tomlin just isn’t going to have the same feeling as Clapton, SRV or AC/DC. Reports that ‘Guitar Praise’ comes with [...]

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“Blow-up church” to meet lost where they are…at the beach

The Catholic church in Rome are going to meet the lost where they are this summer, and that’s at the beach. They have a 98ft long blow up church that will be staffed with priests ready to take confession. One of the priests who spearheaded the operation said, “The concept of a beach-convent is something [...]

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1 Question Interview: What’s Next? by John Mark McMillan

What’s Next? This one question I am asking various worship leaders and pastors. The context is what’s next in corporate worship but beyond that no guidance has been given for appropriate response. For part 4 of this series I spoke with recording artist and worship leader John Mark McMillan. John Mark is currently finishing recording [...]

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Poll: In general, how should worship music relate to culture?

If you’re new to this blog you’ll notice I like doing a poll on a certain topic before I take my thoughts to the world. The idea of how worship music should relate to culture is one I’ve wrestled with for a long time and still do now. I’m interested to see what kind of [...]

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Tim Smith interviews Lecrae – lyrical theology in hip hop

Hearing a talented rapper talk about the need to fuse systematic theology and hip hop and train church leaders who have poor theology is just mind blowingly awesome. Lecrae discusses the difficulties in reach a hip hop culture so rooted in idolatry and sin. These are the kind of interviews that make me excited to [...]

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U.S. religion: even “Christians” see other ways to heaven

There has been a lot of mention in various blogs about the recent survey report from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. It was incredibly revealing, maybe not shocking though as many have seen the clear trends nationally and globally. But never the less, it was painful to be confronted with some of [...]

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