“The Blind Side” Gets Blindsided
We prefer a safe mediocrity to a persuasive truth telling. Baptist news wires recently carried the story about a successful
Reflections on faith, music, and community by Gary Allison Furr
We prefer a safe mediocrity to a persuasive truth telling. Baptist news wires recently carried the story about a successful
A few days ago, I wrote about the too-soon loss of Doug Dillard, an extraordinary banjo player who was a
The Darling Boys are no more This has been one of the unkindest of years in acoustic music. First, Earl
“The Lord…gave me these sounds.” Oliver Sacks is a British-born neurologist whose maverick investigations inspired the Academy-Award winning movie, “Awakenings”
There is a time for the Artist and a time for the Editor The Editor worries about the audience, sales
“Blue Like Jazz” arrived at selected theaters this past week, an odd stepchild among usual movie fare of aliens, vampires,
Earl Scruggs, “pioneer” as the Huffington Post put it, of the Three-finger Banjo style, has died. For some of us,
Love and truth belong together. So why is it that they are so often found separated? Moral life arises from
It’s become a cliche only because it is so powerful and pervasive. Your “voice,” I once heard songwriter Pat Terry