One of life’s great pleasures for me is discovering new music. Now, mind you, this is rarely new in the sense of being a new group which has just broken onto the scene; in most cases, I’m discovering music, artists, or groups which have been around for some time, unbeknownst to me. One such artist…
Category: Christianity
Essays relating to Christianity, or explaining key aspects of the Christian faith
Alice in Wonderland
Alice Cooper was over the top, even for me — and I was a fan of King Crimson and the Mahavishnu Orchestra. Never much cared for gross-out rock (vomiting blood? bat beheadings??) But as it turns out, it was — and still is — all an outrageous act; late twentieth century vaudeville, in essence. Count…
Grace at Starbucks
It was late evening. I was headed for a meeting, at the end of a too-long day, and stopped into Starbucks for my nightly fix. The store was empty except for a single barista. I ordered my coffee, and was taken aback when told, “Your drink has been paid for by someone else.” I looked…
Cult of Death, Heart of Man
The Beslan school siege (also referred to as the Beslan school hostage crisis or the Beslan massacre) was an Islamic terrorist attack that started on 1 September 2004. It lasted three days, and involved the imprisonment of more than 1,100 people as hostages, (including 777 children) ending with the deaths of 334 people, 186 of…