Ransom Fellowship Publishers of Notes from Toad Hall and Critique

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When Musicians Raise Questions About Faith (IV)
BY: Justin Sembler
Enter Monsters of Folk. Their music doesn’t just grab your attention—it demands that you pay close attention. The music matches the message as well as any band I have ever listened to.

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A Beautiful Woman
BY: Denis Haack
The Hebrews pictured Wisdom and Folly as women (see, e.g., Proverbs 3-9), a metaphor sometimes assumed to be merely misogynist and so dismissed in an age that knows better. But the image must be sexually charged because whether hooking up with foolishness or faithfully embracing prudence, the transaction penetrates to the deepest recesses of the soul.

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Alison Krauss: <i>Paper Airplane</i> (2011)

Alison Krauss: Paper Airplane (2011)
BY: Denis Haack
I am not a musicologist nor am I a musician, so this is just a wild guess but I would not be surprised if most music the world over celebrates love or mourns its loss. Nothing else comes so close so quickly to touch the human condition in all its joy and pain.

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Listening to Critics: when musicians raise questions about faith (III)
BY: Denis Haack
There is in all of us a deep yearning for freedom, a freedom that we know is our true destiny even though we can’t quite name the slavery that has us in its grip and that has torn the freedom from us. We wish to be ourselves and to be free—a double grace that always seems just a little out of reach.

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Handel's Messiah
BY: Denis Haack
To be too busy for good music is to be too busy.

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The Killers: Hot Fuss (2004)

Eminem: Marshall Mathers (2000)

Leonard Cohen: The Essential Leonard Cohen (2002)

Bad Religion: The Process of Belief (2002)

Aimee Mann: Lost in Space (2002)

Hip Hop 101

Where Have I Heard That Before? World Rhythms in Cinema

T Bone Burnett: The True False Identity (2006)

Over The Rhine: Drunkard's Prayer (2005)

Bob Dylan: Love and Theft (2001)

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