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Believe it or not, I do have an opinion on the matter. But you'll have to read Jason Boyett's piece on The Daily Beast to find out what it is.

I didn't see much music while at Cornerstone last week. Occasionally I could hear, or feel, the thumping of a bass while I was giving a talk. Someone told me that there were about 500 bands there, which is an amazing number, to be sure.  So it's probably a shame that I didn't see more than I did.  But, the fact is, I have a strong aversion to Christian music in general, so I didn't have a great interest to begin with.

But I did see one group, whom I loved.

For the rest of the week, I'm going to look back on my experience of the legendary Cornerstone Festival. What many are going to want to hear are my thoughts on the panel on which I sat which dealt with the issues of GLBT persons in the church. That's coming, for sure, but I'm going to sleep on it a couple more days. In the meantime, iMonk, who moderated that panel, has posted about it.

Well, not exactly. Tad DeLay, a fan of things emergent, was a music pastor at an evangelical church plant. But he was fired for the direction his theology was taking.  He performed this song, indicative of his theological musings, a week before his firing. The lyrics are below, and you can hear Tad perform it on his PureVolume site.

Forgive Me

Give us the passion in our souls

To fix the world and call it home

And not give in to pious lies

Of gospels cleverly disguised

As hope when they will offer none

But disconnected salvation

That doesn't ever fix a thing

But salves our egos as we sing

 

Forgive me oh lord

Please let me be the one to sit by your side tonight

 

Let them see such hope as this

To love when betrayed with a kiss

To offer Rescue to a world

That has no reason left to trust

The Church as we've perverted her

With lust for power, so quick to hurt

The ones that we are here to serve

Forgive us we were meant to love

Leave it to Rick to finish his countdown of emergent music by naming a band that no one has ever heard of as the official band of emergent Christianity.

OK, I suppose that some people have heard of Arcade Fire. But not me. Now I'll have to buy their music. Here's Rick:

An indictment of the American religious condition and Western culture that is only saved through personal responsibility for the needed changes based in community and hope for the future sounds like a Christian movement I want to be a part of. In fact, it sounds like a Christian movement I am part of. And that is why consider Arcade Fire the official band of Emergent.

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