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  • The Academy Is…Almost Here

    [This post is part of the College: Alphabetized by Album series] Attention! Attention! May I have all your eyes and ears to the front of the room, if only, if only for one second. So go the opening lines of Almost Here by The Academy Is… This album also made its way into my iTunes…

  • Paramore: All We Know Is Falling

    [This post is part of the College: Alphabetized by Album series] My history with Paramore does not go as far back as this album might suggest. While I’ve had All We Know Is Falling on my iPod since sometime in 2006, I didn’t even listen to it until August of 2008. That may seem like a…

  • The Sounds of Autumn

    I was poking around on Amazon and noticed there’s a whole soundtrack worth of new albums coming out in the next 6 weeks or so. Here’s some of the ones I’m looking forward to: Oh Sleeper’s Children of Fire:  Each Oh Sleeper Album keeps getting better and better, and from what I’ve heard off this…

  • Rid of My Disgrace: Hope and Healing For Victims of Sexual Assault

    Rid of My Disgrace is co-authored by Justin and Lindsey Holcomb. Pastor Justin is the director of The Resurgence and on staff at Mars Hill Church. He also currently a professor at RTS and was previously a professor at Emory University (where he received his Ph.D). He also previously taught in the Sociology and Religious Studies…

  • Thrice: The Alchemy Index

    [This post is part of the College: Alphabetized by Album series] Thrice and I go way back. Maybe not as far back as you, but I remember first picking up The Artist In The Ambulance album the summer before I went to Word of Life. I was impressed with their deft mixing of hardcore and catchy…

  • Earthen Vessels: Why Our Bodies Matter to Our Faith

    Paperback: 255pgs Publisher: Bethany House (June 11, 2011) Amazon Westminster Bible school/Seminary level Prophetic explorations and priestly applications of a much neglected facet of evangelical theology [You’re reading this review of Earthen Vessels: Why Our Bodies Matter to Our Faith because I requested a copy from Bethany House and they said yes!] Author Matthew Anderson is a…

  • Between the Buried and Me: Alaska

    [This post is part of the College: Alphabetized by Album series] Death metal is not for everyone. I’ve been into “music with screaming,” – that kind of music that replaces a melodic vocal line with screams of various pitches – for over a decade now. Part of this is because I like the heaviness of…

  • Muse: Absolution

    [This post is part of the College: Alphabetized by Album series] The hipster in me would like you to know that I knew about Muse before you did (and also that I own the 20 track import version). However, if we’re being real, I only found out about Muse because Steven sent me a copy…

  • The Working Title: About Face

    [This post is part of the College: Alphabetized by Album series] This Monday, I’m actually back in Knoxville for a visit. It’s the only extended window I have before school starts up and Christmas break, although I’ll  be back up this way in September for a wedding in Louisville. That occasion however, won’t provide much time for…

  • Love Wins: A Brief Theology of Harry Potter

    [In case you were wondering, yes, the title of this post is a bit of strategery] It’s been just over two weeks now since the last and final Harry Potter film was released. While a more full scale analysis is due, including working through questions regarding the setting of the Potter films (i.e. the witchcraft).…