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Misdiagnosis
Written on 12 Jan, 2010 at 11:37 in Articles on Music, Featured | viewed 442 times and users have made 19 comments so far
There has been a lot of talk in recent years on the internet and at conferences about why young people are rejecting fundamentalism and/or a conservative philosophy of worship. Everyone likes to play the blame game, but the issue that... (Continue reading)
Who said this: “…the rock music had actually destroyed the plants’ cells.”
Written on 15 Dec, 2009 at 14:54 in Featured | viewed 454 times and users have made 23 comments so far
No Googling or looking anything up. Just off of the top of your head, who said the following? The first to guess correctly will win a prize. Our music cannot be like the music of the world, because our God is... (Continue reading)
Can Rap be Christian? Evaluating Hip Hop
Written on 9 Oct, 2009 at 7:50 in Featured | viewed 1,267 times and users have made 86 comments so far
Today we finally arrive at a discussion of the nature of rap itself. This post will be beneficial for you, however, only if you accept the following assertions on made on Monday: Man is completely depraved and thus cannot trust his... (Continue reading)
What music should be used when planting indigenous churches in . . . the United States of America?
Written on 10 Aug, 2009 at 8:00 in Articles on Culture, Articles on Hymnody, Articles on Music, Articles on Worship, Featured | viewed 295 times and users have made 11 comments so far
It seems as if several themes have been reoccurring on this site, Paleoevangelical, and a few other places over the last few weeks. These themes have to do with musical associations, indigenous church planting, and musical universals. Here are the... (Continue reading)
Musical Universality, Ethnodoxology, and Associations
Written on 7 Aug, 2009 at 8:00 in Articles on Culture, Articles on Music, Featured | viewed 189 times and users have made 0 comments so far
We must evaluate both the intrinsic meaning within music and the potentially negative associations of a song before we adopt it into Christian worship. The theme of the latest issue of “Worship Notes,” written by Ron Man, is “Making Musical Choices.” Man writes, The... (Continue reading)
Punting to “Association Problems” may be a cop out.
Written on 6 Aug, 2009 at 8:00 in Articles on Music, Featured | viewed 194 times and users have made 0 comments so far
In my post on associations, I made it very clear that I do think we must at least wrestle through association issues, so I do think associations can be significant enough to render even a good song unusable for a... (Continue reading)
On Associations
Written on 3 Aug, 2009 at 8:00 in Articles on Music, Editor's Picks, Featured | viewed 579 times and users have made 7 comments so far
I do not believe that a song’s association with heterodoxy will usually cause someone to stumble into heterodoxy. Whenever the question is asked whether associations matter in musical choices, people usually fall into one of two camps. First are those who... (Continue reading)
