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Johnny Cash's American VI: Ain't No Grave An Appreciation
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April 2010A friend of mine recently asked me when I was going to get back to writing on church history. You've done the Christianity and culture thing with the Jesus book and the blues book, when are you getting back to church history? continue
Apostasy Lit: Why Do They Leave?
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December 2008Categories of literature have expanded well beyond the tragedy/comedy paradigm of earlier days. Genres, in other words, have been fruitful and have multiplied. Into the mix, I propose a new addition, apostasy literature. continue
Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction
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November 2008Country music megastar John Rich enlisted Johnny Cash on the side of McCain during the 2008 presidential election. "I'm sure Johnny Cash," Rich told a crowd of Florida concert goers, "would have been a John McCain supporter if he was still around." Rosanne Carter Cash, who is still around, doesn't quite see her father in the same way. continue
Golfing For Jesus: Christ and Consumer Culture
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April 2008In his 1922 work Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis used the phrase Christianity In¬corporated to capture the ethos of his fictional small town overrun by a blend¬ing of consumerism and religion. What was good for 1922, however, may be good for today. continue

