News and Notes 
You might be a Christian hipster
Blogger/writer/film critic Brett McCracken has been busy at work on a book about Christian hipsters. We know this because he’s been posting some of his thoughts on the subject at his blog The Search. Just today, he took on the risky ritual of (the horror) defining the Christian hipster. He deserves props for opening himself up to a potential backlash from the label-jars-not-people-crowd while more or less capturing in a […]
James Dobson resigns, sort of
Conservative evangelical leader James Dobson officially resigned his chairmanship of Focus on the Family earlier this week, according to the Associated Press, but won’t exactly be exiting the spotlight. Dobson, a 72-year-old child psychologist and author who founded Focus on the Family more than three decades ago, plans to still do his radio show, write a monthly newsletter and speak […]
For the love of God, beer and cussing
Tom Larson loves God, beer and using four letter words to describe his journey from dropping LSD driving across the continental divide of the Rocky Mountains to being one of only seven invited guests to a private dinner party with a multimillionaire Christian evangelist. Larson, the founder and former executive of the nonprofit Healing Waters […]
Within heaven’s earshot
Long before Christian growly-voiced Creed imitators were populating radio airwaves across the Bible belt and CCM was short-hand for a profitable industry in Nashville, there was a creepy puppet named Little Marcy singing Sunday School songs and hanging out with Smokey the Bear. There were also Pentecostal preacher A.A. Allen recording what he claimed was an honest […]
New Dan Zimmerman coming in April
It’s been almost nine years since Sounds Familyrite Dan Zimmerman released his last record so you could say it’s about time some news surfaced about a release date for Cosmic Patriot, his second full-length album for Daniel Smith’s label. The album is slated for release on April 21. It “features the extraordinary talents of Elin K. Smith, Joshua […]
An exciting match
I have to agree with Jason Morehead. Daniel Smith producing the new mewithoutYou album is definitely a “match made in heaven.” I had a chance to see Danielson and mewithoutYou share a stage once at the North Star Bar in Philadelphia. While they are stylistically very different, they have both succeeded in creating music that […]
Only 193 days
That’s how long it took scandal-ridden Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) to keep his promise about releasing documents detailing his mortgages. Well, sort of, according to ProPublica.org.
A different cab comes to mind
I’ve been reading a lot of chatter about LeBron James’ latest kicks and their New York City-cab inspiration on the Interweb lately. Like the Yankee cap at an Indians game fiasco in 2007, it’s only adding to the speculation that King James will eventually be lacing up his sneaks in the Big Apple. I don’t know and I […]