Monthly Archives: November 2006

Nanci Griffith – Ruby’s Torch

Nanci Griffith’s newest CD, Ruby’s Torch, released last Tuesday. It was produced by Peter Collins (Indigo Girls, Sandra McCracken, Jewel, Bon Jovi), engineered by Trina Shoemaker (Sheryl Crow, Emmylou Harris, Steven Curtis Chapman), and arranged and orchestrated by Kris Wilkinson … Continue reading

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Judging a film

Mark Moring, from christianitytoday.com, recently interviewed director Richard Dutcher about his films, focusing on how his background in the Mormon community affects his work. Dutcher made a comment I found interesting about how the Mormon community judges films (change Mormon … Continue reading

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The God we would rather have

We are your people and mostly we don’t mind, except that you do not fit any of our categories. We keep pushing and pulling and twisting and turning, trying to make you fit the God we would rather have, and … Continue reading

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Morality = Holiness?

One of the many books I’m currently working my way through is Walter Brueggemann’s Hopeful Imagination: Prophetic Voices in Exile. After blogging recently about Christianity vs. Morality, Brueggemann’s caution against reducing God’s Holiness to mere moral categories caught my attention. … Continue reading

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Technology of the Beast

Lore Sjöberg from wired.com just posted an article on the “Technology of the Beast”. Did anyone else grow up hearing this stuff? “And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark … Continue reading

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