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This motion picture soundtrack brings grins all around because each of the tracks associates so instantly with a scene from the uproarious film it graced with fine folk music, in the process generating something of a musical renaissance for those drawn to the genre. Continue Reading »
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My wife walked into the room this weekend as I was watching the last scenes of Casablanca. ‘Isn’t it amazing how it lasts …?’, she observed of the Bogey-Bergman film that had moved me so. Indeed. Continue Reading »
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It’s a big world and artistry represents a big world within that world. There’s room in all of this, thank the Creator, for Sarah Brightman and her multiple musical personae. You can’t fit Brightman into a single genre and you’ll only become bitter if you try.
Just enjoy the music. Continue Reading »
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From one important angle, this is the Amy Grant album we were waiting for and knew she could make. The depth, the knowing pathos, and the quality of expression raised Amy’s game to a new level. Continue Reading »
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Like a mountain range that spreads peaks out as far as the eye can see, Gloria peaked early, then went on to add album after album to the view. Cuts Both Ways is definitely her early peak, a CD that showed her at the top of her game as a singer in both Spanish and English. Continue Reading »
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Delirious? sprang on the scene as a new-born Great Band. They were a breath of fresh air for Christian listeners, not least because they seemed as surprised by their fame as we did. Continue Reading »
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This wildly eclectic anthology of well-known pieces, performed by an accomplished musical company to modest instrumental accompaniment, is a sampler of what grouped voices can accomplish under masterful directorship in the sparest of styles. Continue Reading »
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Order is not a given. It is rather an achievement.
Revolutions fail because they do not understand that the removal of an oppressive status quo does not by itself achieve a more agreeable order. Chaos too often ensues. Continue Reading »
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The psalmist spars with God like friend to old friend over a beer at table in their pub. It is an unsettling frankness that speaks the truth about one’s circumstance without endangering the long association that is the cement that joins such friends.
Psalms 42 and 43 are held together by this verbal link:
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. (Psalms 42:11 and 43:5 NIV) Continue Reading »
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Contrary to what Paul might have expected upon his return to the mother city Jerusalem, the Jewish leaders of the Jesus movement greeted his report of God’s work among the gentiles with jubilation and prudence. Capable of welcoming the complexity of a generous redemption that included the unwashed and impious in its broad embrace, they nonetheless advised Paul to take precautions against the arousal of zealous violence by Jerusalemite Jews of a less ecumenical spirit.
Arguably, such generosity of spirit and tactical posturing kept the Jesus movement intact as it was buffeted by the early crosswinds of ethnic complications. The reader is well advised to linger over it, to palpate the absence of rigidity that it implies, to sense the shrewd care of it all in the face of multiple threats to the movement’s integrity. Continue Reading »
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Canter Bridge 