The Friday Splat
The Friday Splat
Read a commentary on June 7th about the AIDS crisis in Africa that I thought was really powerful. Here is a little excerpt:
Christians are just as guilty as non-Christians of wanting to look the other way when it comes to the problems confronting our world, the topics that make us uncomfortable. But we need to be seriously disturbed about homelessness, child prostitution, rape, poverty, injustice, and HIV/AIDS.-----------------
Twenty-five years into the AIDS pandemic, being HIV-positive still carries stigma and shame. But God cares for the sick and so must we.
It's not a sin to be sick. The Bible tells us Jesus was repeatedly "filled with compassion" as he encountered broken bodies and broken minds. While polite society vigorously avoided contact with those they considered diseased outcasts, Jesus responded in a radical way: He cared, he touched, he healed. - Kay Warren executive director of Saddleback's HIV/AIDS initiative
It looks like country music is trying to eat one of it's own. It is so amazing to me how Country Music is willing to just turn their backs on their best selling and most artistic group, the Dixie Chicks. Apparently the refusal of country music stations to play their album has hurt their concert sales in the south and midwest (article here). I have a few Dixie Chicks songs, but this nonsense makes me want to go out and buy their album just to spite the close minded, hypocritical, shallow, and uninformed country music fans out there. Toby Keith can have a song that talks about the "America sticking a boot up your ass" and they cheer. The Dixie Chicks have a song that says this and people freak out.
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There is not a more heartbreaking performance and song out there than "I Can't Make You Love Me" by Bonnie Raitt. It is just devastatingly good!
Have a great weekend!
3 comments:
I have yet to meet someone who doesn't like that song by Bonnie. It should be on a Best Songs Ever list somewhere...
The "Chicks" are right for speaking their mind, but CW fans are somehow wrong for having their own opinion?
i don't go to concerts because they're $49.50 - $70. that's the price for the dixie chicks in dallas. i saw rem in san antonio in 1999 for $30. i rather see rem twice than just about anybody else once. i'd rather see ian moore 4-6 times at a small bar that see just about anybody else once. it makes me crazy that large corporations give free tickets to their employees, who end up not even going because they didn't get around to it that night. then the employees who do go, sit there and couldn't care less, they only went because it was free.
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