That's the question posed by Beliefnet.com founder Steve Waldman on (no kidding) his Facebook status this morning. Which reminded me of a traditional Jewish story about a boy, a whistle and a prayer. Old-school tweeting, you might say. Read a...
Shidaoxin, a young Buddhist monk, has become a pop star in Beijing, recording songs with lyrics based on traditional Buddhist teachings. Here's a video report from the British Broadcasting Co....
Sam had an item yesterday about a Muslim country singer from Oklahoma. Not to be outdone, eclectically, I offer this one about a Jewish heavy metal album. It's "Black Shabbis" (in homage to Black Sabbath), by Jamie Saft. The review...
A sampling of comments from our readers: "Sure seems to smack of idolatry: Where did Jesus teach if you love me erect large objects in my name?" -- "Grumby Deacon," on the Houston church that's built a 170-foot cross "I...
Steven R. Harmon, an associate professor at Samford University's Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Ala., likes "No Line on the Horizon," which came out today. Writing for Associated Baptist Press, Hamon says that like the group's last two albums, No...
St. Rita Fine Arts, a music ministry of St. Rita Catholic Community in North Dallas, presents a classical music performance "for children and the young at heart" at 3 p.m. Saturday. Organist Damin Spritzer will play well-known selections by Bach...
The New York Times has a long, loving profile of Leonard Cohen, the singer-songwriter who is touring for the first time since 1993. (He'll be at Nokia Theatre in Grand Prairie on April 3.) The profile examines the role that...
Dallas Morning News music critic Mario Tarradell has published his list of the best CDs of 2008. Those familiar with Mario's work won't be surprised that it's an eclectic list, including releases by Metallica and Al Green, Lee Ann Womack...
CompassionArt, the Christian music who's who that came together earlier this year to help eradicate world hunger, is giving away songs from the upcoming CD/DVD package CompassionArt: Creating Freedom From Poverty, releasing on Jan. 27. The giveaway features six...
Erran Baron Cohen, the brother of actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, is a musician whose latest project is "Songs in the Key of Hanukkah." The CD features world-renowned Jewish artists collaborating to perform Jewish holiday classics. Here's an interview...
So says Christianity Today in this Thanksgiving story....
There's a hot new recording act. They call themselves The Priests. With good reason. The Rev. Eugene O'Hagan, the Rev. Martin O'Hagan and the Rev. David Delargy are three Catholic preists from Northern Ireland who grew up singing together....
For the second year, Princeton University is taking part in a program to raise money for the world's hungry by selling choral Christmas CDs. "A Princeton Christmas: For the Children of Africa, Volume 2" is on sale through this site....
"Bruce Springsteen can be deeply spiritual to me. Lou Reed's record 'Magic and Loss' is profoundly spiritual. Annie Lennox's song 'Why' is profoundly spiritual to me.... That word 'spiritual' just means that it resonates with the spirit. And that could...
Michelle Boorstein of The Washington Post says that in an unprecedented strategy move, the Democrats are running political ads on Christian music stations, trying to woo voters who have long enjoyed "a quiet, monogamous relationship with the Republican Party." Here's...
"In my early teens, I would sit on the street corners and play gospel songs. People would listen, applaud, pat me on the head, and tell me, 'You'll be good one day.' But they never tipped. When I played a...
News of this collaboration comes from Gospel Soundcheck, Joanne Brokaw's Christian music blog on Beliefnet. Eno is a British avant/minimalist artist who has recorded with or produced records for performers as diverse as U2, John Cale and Sinead O'Connor....
I confess, I've never been a fan of Christian rock. Not at all. Christianity and rock music remain, for me, twain that ne'er shall meet. But life would be boring if everyone agreed with me. Third Day is a Christian...
If you're over 16 you might not know this, but topping the Billboard charts these days is a bubbly pseudo-lesbian pop hit called "I Kissed a Girl" by Katy Perry (shown above on her album, "One of the Boys")....
The Independent, a British newspaper, calls it "the least predictable music success of the year." An album featuring the chanting of Cistercian monks from Austria has soared to No. 7 on the pop charts in Britain, outselling Madonna and Amy...
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