Better known as the singer/songwriter of the punk band, Bad Religion, Greg Graffin’s earliest musical memory involves singing with his family. Here Graffin joins…
Bruce Springsteen: We Shall Overcome–The Seeger Sessions (2006)
On this album Springsteen joins an astonishingly accomplished group of folk musicians to play a set of traditional songs, including “My Oklahoma Home,” “Old…
Forgiving and Reconciling: Bridges to Wholeness and Hope (Everett L. Worthington, 2003)
We pray, “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us…” then think: I don’t know if I want to. I…
Walking to Martha’s Vineyard (Franz Wright, 2003)
Every twenty-something male worth his salt in the fine art of wooing women knows the value of a well-placed copy of the poetry of…
Zero 7, The Garden (2006)
Social Implications If I were to say to you, Zero 7, what would you think? Perhaps an ad pertaining to cars and their acceleration…
Oakenfold, A Lively Mind (2006)
Social Implications “I’m an infant in the ‘artist’ world, weaned and ready to blossom.” Not typically the words you’d expect to hear from a…
Five Movies That Weren’t Nominated for the Oscar in 2004
For several years in a row, I have done a lecture on the five Academy Award nominees for best picture and what they have…
Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005), Closer (Mike Nichols, 2004)
Desire, for blessing or curse Everybody knows that you love me baby Everybody knows that you really do Everybody knows that you've been faithful…
Wonderful Words of Life: Hymns in American Protestant History and Theology (Edited by Richard J. Mouw and Mark A. Noll, 2004)
In Wonderful Words of Life, eleven scholars and musicians (not all evangelicals) explore the history, theology, and impact of Protestant hymns in worship, devotional…
Islam and the Cross: Selections from ‘the Apostle to Islam’ (Samuel M. Zwemer, 2002)
Islam and the Cross is a reprinting of selections from the writings of Samuel Zwemer (1867-1952). Before becoming a professor of missions at Princeton…