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During the Fall of 2004, I played a small coffeshop gig at Franciscan University: my opening act was the newly-arrived freshman singer-songwriter, Kevin Heider<\/a>. He was good. Real good. Fresh, witty, but not annoying. Not the usual guy-with-a-guitar-and-a-song fare. Now, with some friends, he\u2019s up to some great work with Mysterium<\/a>, a collective of Catholic artists. I just supported their Kickstarter<\/a>\u00a0project for their new live studio album \u2014 The Glory Collective, Shine \u2014 and you should too. I am especially supportive of the way<\/em> they frame their work: within an aesthetic, intellectual, and unapologetically Catholic worldview.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"