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 […]
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This was too good to stay tucked away in a comment by my Aunt Barbara (hide it under a bushel? No! I’m gonna let it shine!). The blog she mentions can be found here: go read it, and see if you can find this intense quote among the comments: Evangelicalism is so liturgically bankrupt, confused, and […]
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Today marks two years since the beginning of Blogorrhea! Even though it was not quite one year ago when I first posted the Blogorrhea Hall of Fame, I figured today would be a good day for an update. I souped up my WordPress-XML-parsing script with year 1/year 2 comparison and stats for the most popular […]
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Most of my reading audience is outside of San Diego, or already knows about this, but the flyer is so cool I thought I might as well post it. It was made in about 2 seconds by a pro graphic designer from our church, whose main claim to fame is posting some comments about Christian […]
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What a busy weekend; mowed the (in places) knee-high "grass", weed-whacked, trimmed back ground-cover plants that were spilling over large areas to become concrete-cover, changed the oil in Homer (the Honda Odyssey), changed the wiper blades on Elmo (the red VW), plus the usual church stuff. In Sunday School, I burst the bubble of half […]
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This is interesting, in light of recent rants of mine about CCM.
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