God makes for good music and a cocktail party conversation
By Tripp Fuller • Nov 30th, 2009 • Category: livingOver Thanksgiving I went home to North Carolina. Somehow I ended up talking about these three ‘God Songs.’ I am not sure what Regina Spektor, The Michael Gungor Band, and U2 have in common other than there conversational appearance over the holiday, but they all have songs about God that draw a response. YET if you want to know what will really REALLY draw a response….then watch the fourth video of Stryper rocking out without their spandex and Marshal stacks. That my friends is the kind of nostalgia the holidays were created for. Now I just have to pull out my Stryper in Japan VHS to play when we decorate the tree.
Tripp Fuller is married to an awesome lady Alecia and has a handsome little baby boy named Elgin Thomas (aka E.T.) and Pebbles, the Schnoodle. He and Alecia are both graduates of Campbell University (where they met), the Divinity School of Wake Forest University and ordained ministers. He is working on his PhD in Philosophy of Religion and Theology at Claremont Graduate University. A few other things he digs are books, cigars, pipes, Shaq, guitar, pirates, fishing, the Counting Crows, and good conversations about Religion and Politics. The podcast is the most time consuming hobby he has ever had besides reading and blogging through Wolfhart Pannenberg's 3 volume systematic theology. Follow Tripp on Twitter | Tripp on Facebook
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Stryper is awesome. I don’t think Bono can handle the yellow and black attack even out of spandex.
WOW! A Deacon who is also a Stryper fan. That is what I am talking about!
I have always believed in the power of music to persuade us as Christians and non-Christians to know more about God and the gospels. These are good songs. Love the song God is not a white man. The last song is good but I have never liked the metaphor “soldier” for Christians. Thanks for sharing.