Faith In the Context of a Hostile World

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I’ve been following some RSS news feeds that I used to follow several years ago, just to get a bird’s-eye view of stories making headlines, and some of the comments those headlines generate. And lately I’ve noticed what seems like an up-tick in hostility towards religious faith in general, and traditional Christian beliefs in particular. […]

Yet Not I

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A lot of modern “worship” music tends to be pretty hit and miss for me…mostly miss. But once in a while I’ll hear something that I actually like. The latest project from Australian-based CityAlight is one of those. It’s a short, 6-song EP called ‘Yet Not I’. I bought and downloaded it it from Amazon […]

Guitar Prowess

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Converting Phil Keaggy’s ‘Getting Closer’ LP prompted me to go back through some other selections in the Keaggy catalog. I had kind of forgotten about the title track from his 1981 LP, ‘Town To Town’. A little rock, a touch of jazz-rock, some electric, some acoustic…lots of guitar goodness here…

Conversions

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I’ve recently gotten the bug to do some more LP to CD/MP3 conversions. It’s been a couple of years since I’ve done any. I have an Audio-Technica turntable that has both line out and USB out, which makes the process a bit simpler. The turntable isn’t super high-end, but it’s plenty good for these types […]

Strangely Dim

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For a while now, I really haven’t been very interested in the popular culture. It’s been slowly building for the past several years, but has become increasingly pronounced in the past year or two. Whatever’s trendy – fashion, music, TV, political memes – just hasn’t struck me as compelling enough to dive in. I have […]