Monthly Archives: August 2007

The Mormon Commercials

What do you think about the new commercials from the LDS church? You can view the Mormon videos at mormon.org. I have some thoughts, but what are yours?

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I’ve Found Mr. Ugly from the UBS

My church gives blood as a group at the United Blood Services a few times a year. While we’re there, someone always remarks about all the Ugly Ed plaques. He’s honored several times on the wall of fame in the waiting area. I hadn’t ever heard of him, but while researching how to run a [...]

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Idol Worship, Not the American Sort

Incidentally, my other idols include Sting, Harry Connick, Jr., Billy Joel, Gene Kelly and maybe St. Gregory of Nyssa and Peter Parker. Those folks are (in order): alive, alive, alive, dead, very dead and fiction. I bring that up because only in Kelly, the saint, and the spider do I have a wistful sort of [...]

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Vicarious Conversation with C.S. Lewis

There’s only a few people I have admired so much that I wanted to meet them. More than meet them, I wanted to converse with them and ask questions. Most are musicians, but one is the author C.S. Lewis. Most of you knew this. Unfortunately, Lewis (or as I’ve called him in my head, Jack) [...]

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Worship Idea #9 – Resource of Loops and Sequencing for Worship

I found this outfit while researching what others have done for using stuff like Reason and Ableton Live in worship. Sacred Loops has folks submitting what they’ve created for specific songs. There are songs by folks like Christ Tomlin and David Crowder Band. This was useful to me for learning how to create my own [...]

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