• I’ve been out of the CCM loop for years now, so I haven’t actually heard anything by Everyday Sunday even though their song, “Wake Up! Wake Up!” was, apparently, “the most-played Christian rock [radio format] song of 2007.”
But even though I know nothing about the band’s music, I know this much: frontman Trey Pearson’s songwriting is about to get a lot better. Pearson just came out as gay. No longer trying to live up to a lie should make the whole truth-telling aspect of his job as a songwriter quite a bit easier.
Best wishes, Mr. Pearson. And rock on.
• I’ve heard rumors of coyotes here in Chester County, but I’ve never seen one. Carol Kuniholm says they’re closer than I realized. The park where her friend spotted them is about a mile from here — the prettiest part of my short commute to the Big Box.
I’ll have to tell the red fox in the woods out back about this, although she probably already knows.
• “I would urge our political leaders to concentrate on issues they directly control, like the billion+ dollars they have spent on a failed testing system, why Texas is near the bottom in the nation in funding public schools, or why we have one of the highest rates of poverty and uninsured children in the country. If they will address and solve those state-wide problems, I feel certain that we can handle the local issue of where our students go to the bathroom.”
• Good point here from Kenji on Twitter:
So let’s consider Martin Luther King Jr. and, say, Ida B. Wells. Their absence from this list must mean they fail to pass muster as sufficiently notable, or sufficiently progressive, or sufficiently Christian. That seems odd.
• Tom Paine was a revolutionary. He was also, apparently, somewhat obsessed with building iron bridges.
I read that interview with Edward Gray, author of Tom Paine’s Iron Bridge: Building a United States, a few weeks ago and it has stuck with me because it seems relevant to our current political moment. You say you want a revolution? Then build something — something useful and necessary and lasting.
(And building bridges is better than building walls — for reasons of commerce as well as the nobler reasons discussed by Pope Francis.)
• At the same time that technology is giving us cell phones to carry around in our pockets, fashion has been giving us “skinny jeans” with ever smaller and less-accessible pockets. Cargo pants were declared “out” just when we all started to need that extra pocket. This seems like poor planning.
Seriously, fashion-people, I’m not qualified to tell you how to practice your craft, but we all have cell phones now. We need pockets.
• Having now listened to the “the most-played Christian rock song of 2007,” I decided to turn back 13 years earlier to its musical and thematic predecessor.
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