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It is a fortunate thing that this, my now-customary annual post bemoaning the vast (and vastly lame) repertoire of standard Christmas music, is a written warning - given that the Christmas music that started polluting the airwaves at least a week before Thanksgiving may well have oblated the auditory systems of many dear readers and […]

The interns will be holding things down for the rest of the weekend. Have a good holiday.

One of the reasons for my silence around here lately has been preparation for and travel to this year’s American Academy of Religion conference. Later this morning I’ll be presenting a paper that reflects on my experience in the digital world of southern gospel music. As always when my work turns in these self-reflexive directions, […]

There’s a list of topics I want/need to post on piling up in my notes files, but for now you’ll have to settle for some time in the sandbox amongst yourselves, at least until the other world of work stops impinging quite so much.

Herman Cain breaks out into a Dottie Rambo song, around the 1:30 mark:

And here he is covering “I Must Tell Jesus” in something very close to a tent revival setting.

Cain has some ways to go yet to best Gantry in terms of womanizing, but this week’s events suggests all the facts may not yet be […]