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Reconciled in worship
WHEN MY WIFE, Darrah, and I met Andy in the Los Angeles airport, we thought we would never have a real conversation with him. This tall, muscular guy ......(Continue Reading) Sacred steel: from hula to hallelujah
The term "steel guitar" usually evokes the plaintive sound of the instrument at the core of popular country and western music. And while pedal-steel ......(Continue Reading)Essays in honor of Eugene L. Brand and the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Lutheran Book of Worship
As the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is making preparations for a new service book and hymnal, it seems appropriate to take stock of what was ......(Continue Reading)In praise of older men
ROCK Guitarists have always attracted hero-worship, and it has helped the best of them survive what would otherwise be the inevitable fall at the end of a brief pop career. Robert Fripp and Bill...(Continue Reading)Secular Steeples: Popular Culture and the Religious Imagination - Book Review
By Conrad Ostwalt. Trinity, 231 pp., $22.00. MORE THAN HALF a century ago Dietrich Bonhoeffer spoke of a coming "postreligious" era. In his 1965 landmark ......(Continue Reading)
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