By Jamie Ketchum For just over a year now, Hopecore.com has been working diligently to bring not only larger artists, such as Underoath and Anberlin, to the ears of many more fans, but they have also been building up smaller acts that certainly need the exposure. Hopecore.com is an online radio station that specializes in … Continue reading Hopecore.com: Alternative Christian radio making waves
By Al Tizon This is my fourth conference this year; I dont have time for the poor. Upon overhearing this statement at a recent holistic ministry network gathering, I laughed out loud. After all, it was said in jest, and it was funny. But over the past several months, it has lodged itself prophetically in … Continue reading Serving the Poor: That Fine Line Between Loving and Pimping
By Mariah Secrest The book unChristian by David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons has been making waves as of late with the findings of a rather unusual research project-analyzing data concerning the perception that the average American holds of Christians. The research was compiled by David Kinnaman, president of respected research company The Barna Group. Gabe … Continue reading unChristian: An Interview with the Authors
By Daniel Taylor On Pride Day this year, members of Bridgepointe Church went down to Churchill Square to hand out bottles of water. (I realize the silliness of bottled water and I myself am a fan of tap water, but bottled water is way more convenient to hand out to revelers on a hot summer … Continue reading An Anti-Thirst Church
By Mariah Secrest After a rich history that includes eight albums, a Grammy nomination, several Dove Awards, and a sales report of over two million records, SONICFLOOd is back, albeit with some personnel changes. This is the worship band that brought us many widely-known worship anthems such as I Could Sing of Your Love Forever … Continue reading Voices in Culture: SONICFLOOd
By Mariah Secrest Jon McLaughlin is not the only Indiana man to rise up recently on the music scene; Kendall Ludwig is now joining the ranks of Hoosier musicianship. Listening to the tracks of his album Where Most Dreams Die made me slightly nostalgic even though Id never heard them before. I attribute part of … Continue reading Voices in Culture: Kendall Ludwig
By Renay D. Burger We have lost our endearing sense of peasantry. As a country of compulsive consumers, renegades of the plastic, we have become the pseudo-highbrow, the contrived class, a wash of fraudulent images. Though we American Express ourselves into the pit of debt, we are out of touch with the reality of dirt, … Continue reading A Peasant’s Critical Creativity
By Mariah Secrest Continued from: Against All Hope: Happily ever after Why is this? I think its because like Monica we live vicariously through stories. And we find ourselves where the stakes are high. We have felt the loom of impending doubt in the circumstances that first brought us out of naivety into sober, guarded … Continue reading Against All Hope, Happily Ever After (pt. 2)
By Mariah Secrest I dont think that the television show Friends is meant to evoke deep emotion or dredge up tears from the unknown deep within. Yet as I flipped on the show last night, looking for a quick distraction from work while I ate dinner, I was surprisingly caught off guard by the symbolism … Continue reading Against All Hope: Happily ever after
By Mariah Secrest I’m thrilled with the push for Christian authors who are finally engaging the fact that we live in a postmodern world and need to re-think our paradigms of faith and culture in light of those facts. I really sense a revolution happening within the Christian faith, particularly among the younger generations. The … Continue reading unChristian: A New Generation’s Thoughts on Christianity