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Under normal circumstances, rewarding a 5-star rating to a diet food is a sign of emotional imbalance or the pressing need to get out more.
But not this time. (more…)
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The apostle Paul’s comprehension of grace is supported by a complex reading of the patriarchal narratives. Abraham figures both as the protagonist of the story and the paradigmatic ‘first believer’. For Paul, the redemptive drama begins nearly two thousand years before Christ and extends into his own time. Continuity is provided by the nature of human faith, which is the same throughout the story.
That is, Abraham’s faith and faith in Jesus are cut from the same cloth. This faith is the human instrument that appropriates the generosity of God towards receptive humankind.
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Under normal circumstances, rewarding a 5-star rating to a diet food is a sign of emotional imbalance or the pressing need to get out more.
But not this time. (more…)
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In the spiritually searching 1970’s of my adolescence, two men and a guitar burst onto the nascent Christian music scene with an enigmatic one-word label and a strange penchant for lapsing into Hebrew.
These guys were ‘Lamb’. They brought to their musical genre a Messianic Jewish angle that now seems almost commonplace, but which at the time was anything but that. As a teenager, I was taken by the deep currents of biblical ideas, biblical feeling, and biblical language that interpenetrated their music. (more…)
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GQ is a publication that merits the adjective ‘legendary’. As a frontrunner in its genre, it takes potshots from many angles but – one thinks of Mercedes-Benz or Oxford University – keeps on doing well what it does well. (This reviewer drives a Ford and attended Cambridge, so I’m trying to be generous here …)
GQ is actually several magazines bound into one. (more…)
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Hector Berlioz missed the memo on the KISS Rule (Keep It Simple, Stupid).
It’s a good thing, that. Even better is the presence of conductors like the supremely attentive John Nelson, who give themselves and their formidable talents to works that might otherwise languish in abandonment, too far off the beat track for markets and beancounters to pay atttention. (more…)
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I Musici is rivaled perhaps only by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields when it comes to predictably crystalline performances of the Baroque masters. When I Musici, Felix Ayo, Heinz Holliger, and Maurice Bourge turn to Albinoni’s concerto repertoire, the outcome is never in doubt. (more…)
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Songs 4 Worship, Shout to the Lord is an anthology of conventional and well-known songs in the ‘Praise and Worship’ Genre. The value of this double CD set is its collection of twenty-two old (at least by the conventions of modern worship music) standards in one place.
The set does not break new ground. Rather, it presents many favorite musicians doing their signature pieces: the Maranatha Singers, Paul and Rita Baloche, Darlen Zschech, Twila Paris, Delirious?, Amy Grant, Rick Mullins, Graham Kendrick, Keith Green, Pete Sanchez, Jr, Joseph Garlington, Charlie LeBlanc, Ed Gungor, Don Moen, Kent Henry, J. Daniel Smith, Marty Nystrom, Ron Kenoly, and David Butterbaugh. (more…)
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Five for Fighting’s John Ondrasik seems finally to have got over himself and down to the business of singing about life. The result is a splendid CD called, enigmatically, ‘The Battle for Everything.’ It promises to endure as a mile marker in his career, to say nothing of the annals of good listening.
The album’s opener, ‘NYC Weather Report’, fairly lilts. Ondrasik’s irony seems less bent on anger venting than on description of life as a stranger, one passing through with wistful memories of places and relationships that failed but somehow cast their expectation forward into destinations that await the end of this moment in the journey. Back, yet somehow forward, to New York City. (more…)
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Copernicus, we are told early in this presentation of an earth that is uniquely and improbably endowed to support complex life, thought the impossible.
It is a notion that is gripping many cosmologists, physicists, and the like in our time. Predictably for the advance of human knowledge, any robust questioning of received wisdom provokes defensive and emotional reaction. Students of the intellectual movement called Intelligent Design (its detractors consider it a religious rather than a scientific enterprise) have grown accustomed to disproportionate responses, an observation that is born out by a quick scan of the reviews of this DVD on amazon.com. (more…)
Canter Bridge 