IMAGE TRUMPS TALENT

Since this article is mostly about integrity, let me start out by giving credit where credit is due. I took excerpts to round out my own thoughts from Brandon Seymour’s blog, but most of the content is based on the influence of my close friends and colleagues that I have traveled with over the years …

GOSPEL MUSIC AND ROCK

Christian music is generally thought to have began in the 70s with Larry Norman who sang about apocalyptic images and cracked jokes about how Rock was God’s Music, Satan stole it, and how Norman himself was stealing it back. The first true Rock band in Christian circles, Petra, whose first album was released in 1974, …

THE POWER OF THE PULPIT

Another day, another prominent rock star canceling a show to protest a controversial new law in a Southern state. Bryan Adams announced Sunday night that he was canceling a scheduled concert in Mississippi to protest a law that will let businesses as well as state employees refuse services to gay people.   Adams’s announcement comes on the heels of …

“THE 27 CLUB”

We live in a day when conspiracy theories run rampant, much of it is fueled by the internet. I am not one for denying all the theories out there, I am sure there is a little truth mixed into a lot of them, but I don’t know enough about most of them to challenge them. When …