Status Updates From Broken Hallelujahs: Why Pop...

"If we are stating that important theological claims are being made in pop culture, then are we not simply subject to the whim or our own taste, finding what we want to find in the songs we know? Why, in other words, should we trust theological insights from Ed O'Brien rather than George Strait?"

"In avoiding suffering and brokenness, we lose the very ability to speak truthfully about our lives and thus to acknowledge the places where God is at work in us." "...terror and beauty exist together in the midst of life's brokenness." "The cries we make from the brokenness of our lives are at the heart of Scripture's promises about life and salvation."

"White folks don't understand about the blues. They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life." -Ma Rainey