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After writing my last post about Derek Webb’s new album The Ringing Bell, I began surfing through The Ringing Bell website more and reading about Derek and the news articles. I stumbled across a recent article that featured him in USA Today and thought it was really interesting to find out more about his beliefs and opinions with comments like the one below. Webb muses that Jesus “wasn’t a white middle-class Democrat either, incidentally. The point is that he didn’t walk any party line. But I think that the church, especially where I live, makes a terrible habit of co-opting the more conservative political party.Read More →

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A recent commentary on Christian Music Today entitled “‘Idol’ Worship?” obviously caught my eye since one of my other blogs on the b5media network is Idol Stalker. This specific article discusses the copying or imitations of American Idol type shows for Christian artists to participate in, like Gifted on TBN or Gospel Dream on the Gospel Music Channel. They polled readers to find out if they liked the Christian spin-off ideas of Idol and the results were down the middle: 46% in favor and 54% against. One thought in general that has sparked some discussion came from the following: Of those voting in our poll againstRead More →

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A friend of mine that’s a youth pastor in Ohio recently had this post and included this Casting Crowns video below of their song “Does Anybody Hear Her” After seeing this group in concert, I can honestly say that it wasn’t a concert at all but a worship service. I love the ministry that Casting Crowns does and equips others to do as well. Who do you see? Who’s paths do you cross everyday and never notice? May we all be challenged to actually share God’s love with people instead of just talking about the love of God that can be there’s if they’ll acceptRead More →