A Primer on Christian Alternative Rock: Vigilantes of Love   WHO ARE THEY? Like The Violet Burning, they are essentially one person: in this case, singer/songwriter/rhythm guitarist Bill Mallonee (MAL-uh-nee,…

Josh Altmanshofer and Michial Farmer talk about Walt Disney’s second feature film, 1940’s Pinocchio. Download or stream this episode. Visit our website.

A Primer on Christian Alternative Rock: The Violet Burning WHO ARE THEY? Essentially, they are Michael J. Pritzl, joined by a cast of revolving musicians. Pritzl was heavily associated with…

Listen to this episode. Our new podcast, Before They Were Live, begins at the beginning, with a discussion of the first Walt Disney feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.…

That something is wrong with higher education in North America is indisputable by now. What, exactly, is wrong is more up for debate. The last decade has given us an…

A Primer on Christian Alternative Rock: Adam Again WHO ARE THEY? Larry Norman, let’s say, invented Christian rock and was largely responsible for the way it sounded in the 1970s. Terry…

Nathan Gilmour discusses a chapter of Martha Nussbaum’s Cultivating Humanity with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs.

A Primer on Christian Alternative Rock: Undercover WHO ARE THEY? Lots of Christian rock bands that formed in the early 1980s underwent a change from straightforward, openly evangelistic lyrics to…

Download or stream this episode. Michial Farmer discusses the 1992 L.S. Underground album The Grape Prophet with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour. Buy this record! The lyrics Articles on the…

Nathan Gilmour risks hellfire by discussing Dungeons and Dragons with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs.

A Primer on Christian Alternative Rock: The Swirling Eddies WHO ARE THEY? Well, the short answer is that they’re Daniel Amos under assumed names and with a different drummer. After…

Download or stream this episode. David Grubbs talks about the early Christian text the Didache with Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer.

Download or stream this episode. Michial Farmer discusses six stories (“Rocket Summer,” “Ylla,” “And the Moon Be Still as Bright,” “The Fire Balloons,” “Usher II,” and “There Will Come Soft…

A Primer on Christian Alternative Rock: Poor Old Lu WHO ARE THEY? Hailing from a youth group on one of the many islands off the coast of Seattle, Poor Old…

Michial Farmer discusses Toni Morrison’s 1983 short story “Recitatif” with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs.