Tad's Happy Funtime

 So it would seem that the Kids These Days have discovered Kate Bush - and I couldn't be more pleased. In contrast to the impression tha...

In 1974, when I was barely two years old, my mother bought a record: the soundtrack to the motion picture The Sting . I grew up hearing tha...

One of the first pieces of music I remember falling in love with also happened to appear in our Baptist Hymnal. And it happens to be a very...

In honor of Veterans Day, I dug up a stirring little something about war and Grapes of Wrath.  The Battle Hymn of the Republic was another...

I have been wracking my brains all month, trying to think of the ultimate "Halloween hymn" to talk about today, and it hit me: for...

(Apologies for the mix-up in posting earlier; and apologies if you didn't see this one coming, but...) Those who have read my book kn...

I really wanted to show you something that would convey to you just how bad we evangelical Christians thought things were in the 1980s when ...

Back when I was an evangelical kid growing up in the 1980s, there was a general reaction among evangelicals against modern rock music - in p...

If last week was an example of a great song with disturbing overtones , this week's song takes a tongue in cheek look at those overtones...

I know what today is, and that's why I picked this song. In 1989, I was just stepping out of my sheltered Southern Baptist upbringing ...

For long time readers of this blog, or fans of the book, you might recognize this song from my post,  Going to Pet the Rabbits . (A much bet...

When people claim there are no atheist anthems - as Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers did in our inaugural post - a quick Google se...

If ever there were a quintessential Hymn of Praise, this is it. Despite the countless doctrinal disagreements between the thousands of sects...