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a driver, a baker, a songs-of-faith maker
It’s a new season for SmallTall Music. For the first time in half a dozen years or so I am not planning an extended fall tour. What’s going on? Over the past while we have come to the conclusion that I should go back to the original vision for...
read morepodcasts, videos, and article on sojourners blog
Here are a few recent links that feature my music: You’ll find a new article from the Sojourners blog about my music here. This was based on an interview-and-lunch conversation with Lisa Daughtry-Weiss of Sojourners, just after the “Children, Youth, and a New Kind of Christianity” conference in Washington,...
read moresinging with Chuck Neufeld
25 years ago Chuck Neufeld did a concert at my high school, and blew me away, and got me thinking that maybe I could write songs that others could sing along to. I spent countless hours hitting “fast forward” and “re-wind” and wearing out cassette tapes (yes, those), learning...
read moreremembering the alamo, remembering stouffville
How are we formed by the stories we tell and the songs we sing? Do the stories/songs matter? I think they do, and over the past few weeks I’ve seen some vivid examples of this process in action. In fact, seeing “how it’s done” at The Alamo in Texas...
read morewhat? ANOTHER new cd?
Yes, it’s true! Just 7 months after the release of “Detectives of Divinity” – the “latest and greatest” SmallTall Music release – there’s ANOTHER new CD in the works. How can this be? I’m glad you asked! We are putting together a “compilation album” of songs drawn from my...
read morewords for easter
The mystery, horror and hope of this season – so central to Christian faith – is something that I have struggled to find ways to sing. How to understand the meaning(s) of the cross… how to SING this… continues to be a challenge for me. On Monday we had...
read moreenthusiastic words from Brian McLaren and Dave Csinos
Here’s an introduction that Brian McLaren and Dave Csinos have written for the new project I’m working on (aiming to have it ready for release at the “Children, Youth, and a New Kind of Christianity” (CYNKC) conference in Washington, D.C. in May). We dream of a church (and a...
read moresongs go around, come around
When I opened my Inbox this morning I found three different messages (from three different people) with stories of how a song of mine has touched them or proven useful to their community. An online devotional reflecting on the text of “You’re Not Alone,” and the experience of singing...
read morenext steps for “community supported music”
Judging by the many friends who are going on a “Facebook Fast” for Lent, I am tempted to observe, given my very infrequent blogging as of late, that perhaps I should give up NOT blogging as a Lenten discipline this year… (GRIN). Well, I won’t promise any kind of...
read morechristmastime conspiracy
It’s a Christmastime conspiracy There’s something going on that we Might catch a glimpse, what can it be? This Christmastime conspiracy… Wise ones heard that it was said In Bethlehem will be the bed Of a ruler who will reign instead Of those who think they know… It’s a...
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