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I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen a convention singing quite come unglued this spectacularly. Take an electrifying look:

There’s more from the same event here and here (h/t, Derek). Think a good thought for Eloise Phillips while you’re at it.

What’s that you say? Trying to post off-topic comments to recent threads and not getting through? I have just the thing. I’ve taken the editorial moderative liberty of front-loading the thread with some of the random collection of OT comments lately. The rest is up to you.

Over my spring break a few weeks ago, I was finally able to see and cobble together some thoughts for Religion Dispatches on Joyful Noise … and some other stuff we’ve been talking about around here, including Whitney Houston’s death and just what gospel is and does anyway. A taste:
I’ll stipulate that as popular cinema […]

I confess it, dear readers: I love a good bass line. I don’t just mean a chordally or music-theoretically sophisticated bit of bass playing, though this is true. I mean, I love a good bass line that, in just the right place, kicks in the subwoofers and threatens to rattle one’s innards and leaves one […]

Via a friend’s comment on someone else’s post on Facebook (h/t, SS), singing convention mainstay Tom Powell demonstrates conducting in the convention singing style:

At least, this is what’s possible when you’re accompanied by a musician of the caliber of Tracey Phillips, who is arguably southern gospel’s greatest living pianist. Leonard Bernstein once conducted an entire […]

The latest allegations of sleaze to ooze out from under everybody’s favorite televangelical empire run by those Saints from Santa Anna, Paul and Jan Crouch:
McVeigh’s lawsuit, which was first reported by the Orange County Register, alleges “multiple cover-ups of sexual and criminal scandals” including: the destruction of evidence concerning a bloody sexual assault involving […]

Over at southerngospelblog, Daniel Mount did a little theological survey of some of his readers earlier this week and the results are in (h/t, KC). Take a look.

Aside from the blowout vocals and the Morty Seinfeld spectacles and an unpermed mustacheless Kenny and the spectacular spectacle of Chris Freeman in her vocal prime and the group’s astonishing transformation of classic quartet part singing on the chorus and the meta-commentary of multiple tags on a song that says when you think it’s just […]

This year’s Dove Awards nominations landed yesterday. DBM Kyle has a nice summary of the highlights coming out of the sg part of the world.
I don’t have a lot to say about these things beyond what Kyle notes, but this is a good excuse to say something I’ve been meaning to say about the Doves/GMA more generally: […]

So John Piper, one of the best sources for accessing the theological id of contemporary evangelicalism, recently made the case for Christianity as fundamentally masculine.
“God revealed Himself in the Bible pervasively as king not queen; father not mother,” Piper said. “The second person of the Trinity is revealed as the eternal Son not daughter; the Father and […]