Ever feel like God is just not there anymore? Me too. Lately I have been feeling that absence again. This means I have felt it before. Just after 9/11 I tried to seek a call in the Newark Presbytery in the PCUSA for ordination. I was not in a pastoral position of any kind, but [...]
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predestination as jazz
Usually when we hear about "predestination" it is a scary word that has at its root the notion that God's grace is not universal but particular. Some receive the grace God has given them and others do not receive it not because they choose not to, but because God never gave it to them in [...]
music interlude: the pains of being pure at heart
It is a dreamy, tinny, fuzzed-out power pop world that The Pains of Being Pure at Heart construct and if you ever thought that it would be cool for Ride at their best to hook up with the Raveonettes, then here you go. One cant help but think back to old home movies about how [...]
music interlude: animal collective
In what is sure to be on every top ten list of indie/alternative music by the end of the year, Animal Collective continues to break new musical boundaries infusing their abstract avant garde tendencies with solid pop melody and sensibilities on their latest album Merriweather Post Pavilion. They have a knack for tribal rhythm and [...]
