Hoagies & Stogies: Exclusive Psalmody

Well, another Hoagies & Stogies has come and gone. The unanimous verdict of those 29 hardy men (is that what Hardy Boys grow up to be?) who braved the cold and risk of rain was, “that was a lot better than I expected!” So kudos to our two debaters (Pr. Mark England of [...]

Hoagies & Stogies: Exclusive Psalmody MP3

You can listen directly from The Narrow Mind Aftermath blog, or you can download from (or subscribe to!) the Unchained Radio RSS feed.  Or you can read a little about it, and discuss, here.

Good Things

Without belaboring my obvious recent absence from the blogosphere, I’ll just provide a number of links that you might find interesting:
RiffTrax: Don’t you miss MST3K? Years ago, Forester had the idea to make his own MST3K-type spoofs, but the original MST3K guys ended up beating him to the punch. Now, for only [...]

Apparently, I’m a “Classic”

This is interesting, in light of recent rants of mine about CCM. 

Why can’t CCM have any good tunes?

Thanks to a tip from sheet-music, I hereby smackdown the urban myths (leveraged by the smacked-down commenters in this previous post) that

Luther stole hymn tunes (in particular, A Mighty Fortress) from popular drinking songs of his day
Luther ever said “Why should the Devil have all the good music”.
If Luther said that, that he meant “let’s [...]

Best Hymn Tune

Another in my periodical, sporadical, and occasional series on Hymns (the first of which can be found here), I nominate, for the prize of Best Hymn Tune Ever, O Sacred Head Now Wounded.

God’s Love, not mine

I here inaugurate a periodical, sporadical, and occasional series on Hymns that mean a lot to me. All of these will have a link to a page with MIDI accompaniment to the entire Trinity Hymnal (it’s a little groovier if you imagine a nice rhumba or bossa nova synth beat in the background).
As a [...]