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Happy easter, dear readers.
An imperfect storm of technology complications and unexpected travel for me will mean for you a slightly longer what before I say what I would have said about the Doves, and other e-pearls of Avery’s wisdom. I know, I know. Steeal yourselves, faithful ones, for what will surely be a darksome path […]

The Dove awards are or will soon be underway in Atlanta. I guess now we’ll know what Nashville looks like without a Christian music industry, if only for a day.
I’m sure I’ll have some post-awards wrap-up to offer by Friday, but in the meantime I leave you with this salient thought on awards:
[Professional awards] are […]

Apropos our discussion about the experience of hearing songs that echo one another in evocative ways, reader (and friend) Carl writes thusly:
I’m in my element at a 2- or 3-day southern gospel music event, but I have to admit that after a few hours the serendipity is in hearing a song that doesn’t sound like another one.
Touche.

In a series of posts I’ve called “This Happens to Me All the Time,” I occasionally document those strange convergences of conversation and gospel music’s greatest hits that are sprinkled throughout my days (i.e. the sales clerk asks me if I’d like to open up a store credit card and put the purchase on my […]