Sister Tenor

[Note: the dead-end, tangential “debates” about scripture have sucked all the oxygen out of this thread; comments are closed]
As admirable as it is for Daniel Mount to attempt an intervention into the obnoxious Sister Tenor schtick that afflicts so many hackneyed sg emcees’ repertoire or “jokes” (and I agree, these droolingly dumb jokes can’t stop […]

OT: Sandi Patty, The CCM Judy Garland

Via Martin Roth (seriously, give this man an award for finding the most fascinating mainstream media coverage of Christian music, and then withhold it from him until he consistently puts permalinks on his posts), a brave Washington Blade story that dares to talk about something that anyone paying attention has known for years but no […]

Reaching out

I wonder if all Kirk Talley’s critics who complain he hasn’t adequately reformed and has failed to become sufficiently “Christian” again will book him back on their concerts now and reinstate his record deals and generally (re)certify him roadworthy now that he’s lending his support to these toxically delusional degayification programs from Focus on the […]

Your daily Gaither fix

Ok, I know we’re all getting a little weary of the Gayther hoopla lately, but in my exhaustion I’ve been wondering why exactly this old shoe got picked up and dropped again after four years. I chalked […]

Let’s go to the tape

Reader NJ clipped and sent me both the excerpt from the Homecoming video in which Bill Gaither made his increasingly infamous remarks about Marsha Stevens and a full transcript of what he said […]

Gayther (again and again)

It’s official (at least judging from my mail it is): The Gaithers’ years-old meeting with songwriter Marsha Stevens, who is a lesbian, has just about attained the status of what I call an evergreen gospel scandal […]

Out of the Lords Closet, revisited

So I picked up the GQ profile of Kirk Talley in the airport on my way to the beach (which, by the way, was absolutely glorious … I got to sit by the sea, but before the […]

Out of the Lords Closet

That’s the title of GQ’s August feature on Kirk Talley (hat tip, DA). The online teaser reads thusly:
Singer Kirk Talley was on top of the Christian-music […]

The waters, chummed and roiling

Well it didn’t take long for my post on Kenny Bishop’s new website to awaken old familiar feelings and resurrect the standby rhetoric of holy condemnation that had been […]