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The announcement of Jason Waldrup’s Waldroup’s long-overdue departure from Greater Vision makes commenter Matthew looks downright prescient. Describing a recent GV concert, Matthew wrote of Waldroup:
He was barely featured in the concert, and, in my opinion, rightly so.
I’ll have more to say about all this later. For now, I’m on a writing deadline all week, […]

Via SGBlognews, an article by historian James Goff (of Close Harmony fame) in Assemblies of God Heritage about The King and religious ambivalence: “Conflicted By the Spirit: The Religious Life of Elvis Presley” (.pdf).

A friend of mine emailed the other day asking about a comment he remembered seeing a while back somewhere on the site to the effect that Legacy 5 would be “toast” after Roger Bennett’s death. I can’t find that comment and neither could the friend (let me know if you can or remember where it […]

Apropos our discussion of the Gaither Trio discographical madness, the ever insightful CVH writes:

What I’d like to see, aside from all the Gaither/Homecoming product released today, would be an extensive compilation, like a boxed set, of all the earlier recordings, with outtakes, alternate versions, etc. and extensive liner notes. Bill would have to write […]

So this conference I’ll be presenting at shortly has required me to (re)immerse myself in All Things Bill Gaither. Partly, this has involved rereading Gaither’s books, I Almost Missed the Sunset (1992), and It’s More Than Music (2003). Fortunately, they’re even easier to read the second time through.
Aside from the fact that […]

1. Since I dropped Lunarpages a while back, I’m perfectly happy with GoDaddy.com’s hosting service (well more or less; they really do tend to nickel and dime you on the ancillaries, like pop-mail forwarding, which is an “add-on” service to your base contract), but could their homepage be any more unappealingly cluttered? And what’s with […]

I must say, it’s gratifying – in a bittersweet kinda way – to see people finally starting to say some of the same things about the sad state of mainstream media in southern gospel that I’ve been saying for years now (in fact, one of the many ancillary but not unimportant reasons I started this […]

From the Church Marketing Sucks blog, a round up of church marketing efforts to “create buzz for Easter.”

Easter fortune cookies - Lifechurch.tv in Hendersonville, Tenn., gave out bags of fortune cookies that include a fortune and a link to their Easter site. Folks may not want to listen to you about your site, […]

Since it doesn’t seem to be going away any time soon, I might as well as get this out of the way and comment on the ongoing legal dispute between various parties contesting each other’s claims to ownership of the Imperials name.

Skip to the next paragraph if you already know the history: If […]

Via Canadia reader NG, Bill Gaither on music, history, and (dis)unity:
I grew up in the north but our music is a southern phenomenon. In America, because of the civil war, there is a divisive nature between the north and the south. The person who said music is a universal language lied because music is divisive. Just […]

So we all know that Scott Fowler took a ride on the plane of the now defunct Huckabee campaign and schmoozed with the Huck himself back during the Iowa swoon for the other man from Hope. No shocker there. Fowler’s a long time conservative political junkie (and, one assumes, a generous enough contributor to get […]

Since I’m already woefully behind on this (and so many other things that’ve happened recently), I was hoping I might be able to wait for some of the comments threads to include reactions from people who’ve heard the new Gold City vocalist who took Jonathan Wilburn’s place.

But I haven’t seen any of those […]

Hard to imagine this is real, but it’s pretty entertaining in any event. Money quote, via Michael Smith:
Christvertising takes a whole new approach to marketing your brand. We skip the strategic deliverables. We pass on the matrixes, the payoffs and the metrics. We ignore any viral functionality. We focus on […]

No, I’m not still on spring break. In fact, it feels like spring break created more work than before I left. But whether it did or not, the upshot is it’ll be a bit longer before I can return con mucho gusto, as Mrs. Rayfield would have said in Spanish class.
Until then, I’ll share an […]