Posts Tagged ‘Joel Hartse’
On Not Rocking for Jesus
February 5, 2009
My latest musical obsession is Christian rock from the 1960s and 70s, a time before there was such a thing called Christian rock, and particularly attempts to re-interpret liturgical music in pop and rock forms. It is mostly bad, or at least weird, and while some of it is good, it has led to me…
Read MoreWhat I Write About When I Write About Music and Religion
January 22, 2009
I have been writing about the intersection of pop music and religion for as long as I can remember. As I teenager, I made four issues of a zine (never published outside an old Macintosh computer) called Toxic Chalk, which balanced my love of rocking out with a lot of complaining about Christian music. I’m…
Read MoreWe Count Those Blessed Who Have Endured (Songs from 2008)
January 5, 2009
With this post we welcome another contributor to Good Letters. Joel will be focusing mostly on music. One thing that I learned in 2008 is that everything is going to keep changing, all the time, and is always going to be not what it was last year. And what I want from songs now is…
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