“The World as Best as I Remember It, Volume One” – 1991 “The World as Best as I Remember It, Volume Two” – 1992 “A Liturgy, A Legacy, and a Ragamuffin Band” – 1993 In the summer of 2001, I drove between Nebraska and the west coast three times. I listened...

I was about fourteen when I noticed putrid smells coming from certain rooms in The Church: racism, hypocrisy, profiteering evangelists, prosperity gospels, and other such piles of bullshit that I had to step over on my journey of faith. When I brought these subjects up to my Sunday School teachers and...

Plenty of folks, including Burnside on occasion, rail against the machinery of Christian music. There’s good reason to do so, since the Christian music industry at large has hardly been a catalyst for innovation and creativity. But most of Burnside’s writers have also been deeply impacted...