first consider the following blessing of the waltz genre offered by an exemplar fundamentalist apologist for conservative music why would rock music affect the body in a way which is unlike the effect of any other type of music the answer according to diamond and others is the character of the rock beat. rather than a strongweakweak waltzlike beat pattern which reflects the heartbeat and the rhyt......
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ive been lurking yes thats the technical term on a few blogs reading up on the latest flareup of the music debate. its been a few years since this particular issue caught fire online and as usual we have the usual list of teachers each with their own view. i remember running myself into a wall a while back assuming that because i had a website which anyone can get that meant my opinions were more ......
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i really want to be candid. blunt. part of the difficulty however of making friends is that you might lose them. this happened to me last year at the shepherds conference. i wrote glowing reports on day one and two and then when the college choir sang a michael w. smith song that bugged the living daylights out of me i didnt say anything. i wimped out. or and i really think there is truth in this......
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i am leaving tomorrow for the fundamental baptist convention. most know it as the leadership conference. i call it the convention because it is one of the few conferences where there is so obviously a representative from each of the approved schools and seminaries that are major players in their small pool of fundamentalism. one really wonders if the speakers were chosen for their leadership and m......
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