Artist Of The Week: Alexi Murdoch

Location: London, England, UK
Genre: Indie Folk, Acoustic
Style: Very Groovy

I Am Weak Yet He Is Strong

Reveal
To
Me
A
Life
Worth
Living
For
I
Am
Nothing
Without
You

Artist Of The Week: Kosha Dillz

Location: New Jersey, USA
Genre: Hip Hop
Style: Spiritual, Fun

Psalm 131:1

"I will not trouble myself with things too difficult for me to understand."

- Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

Obsession

I want these so badly. I need an intervention for my shoe addiction.

Can You Say Queen City?

Artist Of The Week: The Low Anthem

Location: Providence, RI
Genre: Americana, Folk
Style: Reflective & Sporadic

Low Anthem "Ticket Taker" from Lake Fever Sessions on Vimeo.

Hip Hop Roots

Circa '04

A Complete List (I Think)

Fight Club
Apathy: And Other Small Victories
The Rum Diary
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
Survivor: A Novel
Sex, Drugs And Cocoa Puffs
The Great Shark Hunt
Better Than Sex
Goosebumps: Beast From The East
To Kill A Mockingbird
Everything But The Burden
Silent Bob Speaks
Napalm And Silly Putty
When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?
The Flash of Lightning Behind The Mountain
The Grapes of Wrath
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
Hell's Angels
Life Of Pi
Into The Wild
Choke
The Verve: Crazed Highs & Horrible Lows
The Ragamuffin Gospel
The Jungle Book
Sex Is Not The Problem (Lust Is)
Kitchen Confidential
Sex God: Connections Between Sexuality And Spirituality
Velvet Elvis: Repainting The Christian Faith
Akira Kurosawa: Interviews
The Films Of Akira Kurosawa
Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of Nimh
High Fidelity
Animal Farm
The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe
Pet Sounds 33 1/3
How I Became Stupid
Where The Wild Things Are
Falling Up
Where The Sidewalk Ends
The Wave
Lord Of The Flies
Can't Find My Way Home: America In The Great Stoned Age
The Giver
A Scanner Darkly
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
Redemption Song: The Ballad Of Joe Strummer
A People's History Of The United States
Welcome To The Revolution: A Field Guide For New Believers
Drops Like Stars
Searching For God Knows What
To Own A Dragon
The Beach
Less Than Zero
The Pursuit Of God
Soul Cravings
Mere Christianity
Illmatic 33 1/3
Jewish Spirituality: An Introduction For Christians
The Five Love Languages
My Utmost For His Highest
The Sacredness Of Questioning Everything
I Kissed Dating Goodbye
The Hobbit
Pocket Guide To The Bible: A Little Book About The Big Book
Letters From A Skeptic
The Case For Christ

The Pursuit of God

"A spiritual kingdom lies all about us, enclosing us, embracing us, altogether within reach of our inner selves, waiting for us to recognize it. God himself is here waiting on our response to his presence. This eternal world will come alive to us the moment we begin to reckon upon it's reality."


"Let us say it again: The universal Presence is a fact. God is here. The whole universe is alive with His life. And He is no strange or foreign God, but the familiar Father of our Lord Jesus Christ whose love has for these thousands of years enfolded the sinful race of men. And always He is trying to get our attention, to reveal Himself to us, to communicate with us. We have within us the ability to know Him if we will but respond to his overtures. (And this we call pursuing God!) We will know Him in increasing degree as our receptivity becomes more perfect by faith and love and practice."

- A. W. Tozer

Currently Reading...

I heard of this book through a review of A.J. Jacobs' The Year Of Living Biblically. It is very simliar in style. The big difference is A.J. Jacobs is non-practicing Jew and Ed Dobson is a practicing Christian and a pastor. The Year Of Living Like Jesus is written as daily journal entries about trying to live just like Christ did. Ed seems to be very sincere and he has great ideas and insights into the way Christ lived. I am only on page ninety six but I am reading a few chapters a day. So go pick it up. You wont regret it.

Hip Hop Roots

Circa '01

What We All Want III

It's messed up because sometimes we want things that are completely opposite of what we need. In fact, a lot of the time in the world today, you find people searching for and seeking out things that are terrible for them.

Artist Of The Week: Shad

Born: 1982
Location: London, Ontario
Genre: Hip Hop
Style: Conscious & Playful

Cincinnati Bridges

True Love

There are two extreme viewpoints that I have discovered in the Christian faith. The first being; "I have been forgiven so I can do whatever I want." And the second consists of a super massive amount of rules and regulations which are put in place in order to gain God's approval.

These two view points are polar opposites, very common in the christian community and in my opinion, absolutely backwards. But what I found is a middle ground. A beautiful, warm life that is filled with purpose.

Once you truly discover God's love, all these old creaky doors close and new ones open up. Its so freeing. You'll find true convictions in your life, not rules. And along with that freedom comes complete selflessness. The ten commandments isn't a checklist, it was created to shows us our faults and to show us what will happen when we truly love God and our brothers and sisters. And when you start to find God's love, all those commandments fall into place. It is no longer a burden.

Love: The True Rebellion

Hip Hop Roots

Circa '99

What We All Want II

People look for what they want in all sorts of different things. And they often neglect the things that they need in life. There are a couple of basic things that I think most of us want even if we're not completely aware of the fact that we want those things. I don't know how to communicate that to people. Usually its just something that you learn in time.

Hip Hop Roots

Circa '97