by Chris Wiles | Mar 22, 2012 | Faith
For more than 20 years, Nick Cave has been cranking out some fairly bleak punk-influenced music with his band “The Bad Seeds.” The song you’re seeing performed live is on a more stripped-down, piano-based album called “No More Shall We Part.” The lyrics are pretty... by Chris Wiles | Mar 20, 2012 | Faith
The video is of the band The Civil Wars with their song “Barton Hollow.” You have to love the chorus: “Ain’t going back to Barton Hollow Devil gonna follow me e’er I go Won’t do me no good washing in the river Can’t no preacher-man save my... by Chris Wiles | Mar 10, 2012 | Faith
The following video is “Yahweh,” by the band U2. The name “Yahweh” is one of the primary names for God in Hebrew. It was a deeply personal name, so much so that when the name “Yahweh” was printed, the Hebrews used to switch to the name “Adonai” (analogous to “Lord”)... by Chris Wiles | Mar 1, 2012 | Faith
“Hello, hello…you’re in a place called Vertigo…” The song is “Vertigo” by U2, from their album How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. You’ll notice the obvious mixture of sacred and secular imagery, including the story of the girl wearing some... by Chris Wiles | Feb 29, 2012 | Faith
Our stories are precious things. They flow through us—and out of us—in rivulets of nouns and verbs and all the other fragments of human speech that give life its form. Language is how we enter the world—both literally as well as figuratively. The Christian Bible...
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