Lightly Salted: October 2009

Matt Maher - Alive Again

Matt Maher’s fans have seen his music mature from simple modern arrangements of liturgical elements into the simply the best contemporary Catholic artist on the market.

If you are a Catholic and haven’t hear the name Matt Maher yet, crawl out from whichever rock you’ve been living under and get a load of this. Matt is back, and his new CD Alive Again is even better than the last!

Alive Again takes Matt’s polished and passionate style up another notch lyrically, musically and professionally. So how is the new album different to Maher’s previous CDs? If I had to sum it up in one word I would have to say “broader”. That is, his appeal has broadened to include a larger variety of styles and motifs.

Oct

Popple pop up again

Popple is an acoustic humor rock band made of two Catholic guys, Dan and Kyle. So says the band’s official website. Like all descriptions of the band it fails to capture the random brilliance in the genius of a joyful and uniquely Catholic approach to life expressed in a variety of musical styles.

Oct

Facing the Altar of God

Asked what his views were on giving up his title as bishop, [Anglican] Bishop Broadhurst said:

“Who cares. Soon I’ll be in a wooden box in front of the altar. What matters is the bigger picture. God matters, the truth matters. We as individuals don’t matter.

Oct

Tradition opens Scripture

From Pope Benedict XVI via Zenit this very day

"Scripture being only one thing starting from the one People of God, which has been its bearer throughout history, consequently to read Scripture as a unit means to read it from the Church as from its vital place, and to regard the faith of the Church as the real key to interpretation.

Oct

Giggling with Dr Horrible

I usually hate borrowing stuff but the DGD over at SciFi referred his readers to one of Joss Whedon's funniest efforts. The content of this musical-superhero spoof was the best laugh I've had in a very long time. This probably reveals more about my sorry lack of amusement lately than Whedon's skills, but it is worth a look nonetheless.

For the geeky among us it stars Neil Patrick Harris (a.k.a. Dougie Howser), Nathan Fillion (a.k.a.

Oct

It's been a while

It's been a while since I posted anything here. I still have the urge to post. Things I see, little moments at work, stupid stories on the radio and so on prompt me to express my response somewhere. I lost a lot of confidence in expressing myself publicly of late and so usually pull up short before actually posting anything.

The fact that I have been almost consumed with detailed and soul destroying government red-tape has not been helpful either.