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$\"strand-of-oaks-heal\"$ <\/a>This week, I begin a new year-long adventure: \u201cListening Closer<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thanks to the imaginations of the folks at Christ and Pop Culture<\/em>, I will write about one song every week, opening it up to consider what\u2019s inside, where it came from, what it might mean, and why it has caught my attention and stayed on my mind.<\/p>\n

When I first started writing about art, I was just a kid, and I was just as interested in writing about music and literature as I was about movies. In time, the movie-writing drew an audience, and so I invested myself more heavily in that.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019ve missed music-reviewing.<\/p>\n

Ideally, I\u2019d love to host actual listening parties. Wouldn\u2019t it be fun to explore these things together in person? I\u2019m hoping that someday I\u2019ll get to exercise the disciplines that I developed as a student at Seattle Pacific University in an actual classroom<\/em>, adventuring into an\u00a0exploration of the intersection of faith and art. Even as a high school student, I fell in love with the experience of\u00a0investigating texts, movies, and music with\u00a0students. (I\u2019m so grateful to the schools that have invited me to share with students in this way \u2014 Northwestern College, Judson University, Biola University, Lee University, Valley Christian High School, and especially Covenant College, where Anne and I had the joy of serving as Writers-in-Residence. I\u2019m looking forward to visiting Houston Baptist University to speak about faith and fiction-writing in 2015.)<\/p>\n

But for now, I\u2019m enjoying opportunities to\u00a0explore art and faith through writing \u2014 and I\u2019m thrilled for the chance to get back to a vigorous investigation of music once again.<\/p>\n

Thanks especially to Richard Clark<\/strong> and Mary Elizabeth Baggett<\/strong>, who will \u2014 much to the benefit of all of you \u2014 monitor my behavior and, more importantly, edit me.<\/p>\n

Here is the first installment<\/a> of Listening Closer<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"