I ran into Bill Mallonee recently in Athens, GA. I am a great admirer of Bill’s music both as the frontman from Vigilantes of Love and as a solo artist. He is an eloquent and insightful man and his music reflects his depth. Our conversation wound around a number of topics, mainly [...]

I was recently in Kenya and Uganda with Compassion International and am still processing through much of what I saw, experienced, etc… Now, I am not one of those bloggers who likes to communicate things that are still in process, but I just don’t see how I am going to avoid that this time [...]

The speaker’s intention was to communicate something of the importance of Love. He showed a short video taken in one of Mother Theresa’s care homes in which a loving sister calms a dying child by soothing him with her hands. The child is obviously underfed and near death. His body was in [...]

When I was in high school, I ran for Student Body President against a student who was a prominent member of the “popular crowd.” I, on the other hand, had settled nicely into the drama-geek crowd after a floundering performance as a popular athlete-type my freshman year. It was a political battle worthy [...]

Everyone rubbernecks. Everyone. Rubbernecking is one of the great common denominators of all humanity; that, and a disdain for the New York Yankees. The question I have been asking more recently is if it may be possible that rubbernecking is more than just the manifestation of some deranged fascination with death or [...]

I was recently told a fascinating story about a conversation between the Pope and Michelangelo. This is not that conversation.
The actual conversation I am referencing was one in which the Pope, after seeing Michelangelo’s David, asked Michelangelo “How do you know what to cut away?” The artist replied, “I cut away everything that [...]

I’ve always sought to provide music that gives voice to those of us who live on the outside or on the fringes. To write music for those of us who know what we believe and yet struggle to hold onto it because of all that culture tends to add on to faith; Those of [...]