Joel Edwards
July 2, 20086 Comments
Ten “Secular” Albums Every Christian Needs To Hear (In No Particular Order)
“Funeral” by Arcade Fire
(How can an album so bogged down with death be so life-affirming?)
“Time Out Of Mind” by Bob Dylan
(One poet’s conversations with God about mortality and death)
“The Joshua Tree” by U2
(An American spiritual and musical masterpiece by an Irish band)
“Seven Swans” by [...]
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December 6, 2007One Comment
“All I can do is be me, whoever that is.”
- Bob Dylan
Revolutionary, rebel, lover, recluse, romantic, spiritualist, mystery. How can you identify a man who has no identity? In his new film about (presumably about Bob Dylan) entitled I’m Not There, Todd Haynes does no such thing, instead taking seven different aspects of Dylan’s life [...]
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March 10, 20074 Comments
2003 was a hard year for The Arcade Fire. They were about to make it big, having just released an EP and getting ready to record their first full-length album, when close friends and family members started dying off left and right. It was out of this period of darkness and pain that The Arcade [...]
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