Monthly Archives: February 2008

Longing for Home

Before I moved to Nashville two years ago, I used to make the trip over from Chattanooga every Tuesday. For two years, I drove up for an 8:30 AM meeting with other composers and score nerds to listen to music … Continue reading

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“The Greatest Band of All Time”

I just posted another entry at the Square Peg Alliance site about tonight’s concert by Andy and the Andy’s. Check it out.

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Andy and the Andy’s

I just posted this over on the Square Peg Alliance site: If you’re within, oh, about 18 hours of Nashville, you might want to start driving this way now. Thursday evening is the debut performance of Andy and the Andy’s: … Continue reading

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Crazy for God, part 3 – Politics and Ideological Purity

On the subject of politics, Frank Schaeffer is not reticent about sharing his feelings. He spends a good deal of time writing about the roles he and his father played in the genesis of the religious right, and how his … Continue reading

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Charlie Peacock

Thursday evening, some friends from Chattanooga came up to go see a concert with me that we’d been looking forward to for some time. Sara Groves, Charlie Peacock, Ron Block, and Christopher Williams were putting on a benefit concert for … Continue reading

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Reading on a trip to Seattle

Because I had a break in work last week, I decided to make a quick trip up to Seattle for my uncle’s birthday. On Thursday, an organization he started, Voices in Wartime, had a benefit concert / auction that I … Continue reading

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Crazy for God, part 2 – Faith and Desperation

Link to part 1 In chapter 15 of Crazy for God, Frank Schaeffer spends a couple pages on the topic of faith. In one of the better chapters in the first half of the book, he writes about how most … Continue reading

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