Deceptively clean and good natured title here
A couple of months ago in one of our conversations about Christian rock, Jim asked if Paste Magazine "used to have a Christian focus." I replied with the guess that the people who started it "were undoubtably Christian and wanted to cover the music they knew from that world, but never as a genre separate from the other music that they liked."
Today I had the pleasure of meeting one of those people, blogger Will Hinton, who was visiting New York and nicely invited me to join him for a cup of coffee (although given the awesome weather, I went with iced tea). Will is a real mensch, which was already pretty obvious from his blog, but nice to confirm. We recorded a short video interview about Rapture Ready! and cross-cultural dialogue that he'll post soon, but I wanted to suggest that you check out his site now, so it doesn't just look like I'm promoting myself (because I'd never do that).
Will is the kind of person I enjoyed meeting most during my research: a refugee from the religious right, who is thoughtful about his beliefs and respectful of other people's.
Mostly, though, I'm just posting this because I'm getting a lot of traffic from Christianity Today, and I figured I should ease first time visitors into this blog, since for the past week, I've indulged in an unusual amount of off-color language (for which I blame John McCain) and photos of naked women painted like cows (for which I blame, uh, Ben & Jerry's?).
Comments
Radosh,
How many times have we told you? If you are going to invite your little Jesus-loving, bible thumper friends over to the blog, you are going to have to clean up your language (and lose the pink shirt, for Christ's sake).
Posted by: Anonymous | June 19, 2008 3:15 PM
Now could you get to the bottom of who at Paste thought it was a good idea to plug Scarlet Johansson's album on the last cover?
Posted by: Jim/The Velvet Blog | June 19, 2008 5:04 PM