music Archives - Faith on View https://www.faithonview.com/category/essay/art/music/ Diverse Christian News and Commentary Wed, 09 Jul 2025 23:54:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://www.faithonview.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/cropped-favco_compressed_compressed-32x32.png music Archives - Faith on View https://www.faithonview.com/category/essay/art/music/ 32 32 How Your Own Musical Taste Can Be an Oppressor or Liberator https://www.faithonview.com/how-your-own-musical-taste-can-be-an-oppressor-or-liberator/ https://www.faithonview.com/how-your-own-musical-taste-can-be-an-oppressor-or-liberator/#respond Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:42:11 +0000 https://www.faithonview.com/?p=12613 George Clooney and two other male characters from O Brother Where art Thou are shown in this screen grab image.My favorite movie ever since I first saw it in high school is “O Brother Where Art Thou?” I bought the soundtrack, and, like all millennials in their teens, I read every page of the ...

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]]> https://www.faithonview.com/how-your-own-musical-taste-can-be-an-oppressor-or-liberator/feed/ 0 Get on your knees and fight like a man: Shifting from world peace to spiritual warfare in contemporary Christian music https://www.faithonview.com/get-on-your-knees-and-fight-like-a-man-shifting-from-world-peace-to-spiritual-warfare-in-contemporary-christian-music/ https://www.faithonview.com/get-on-your-knees-and-fight-like-a-man-shifting-from-world-peace-to-spiritual-warfare-in-contemporary-christian-music/#respond Fri, 03 Nov 2023 16:00:54 +0000 https://www.faithonview.com/?p=14794 Petra's This Means War! album cover is shown.The contemporary Christian rock group Petra dedicated an entire album to the theme of spiritual warfare when they released This Means War in 1987.  With a title track that channeled John Milton’s Paradise Lost in ...

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]]> https://www.faithonview.com/get-on-your-knees-and-fight-like-a-man-shifting-from-world-peace-to-spiritual-warfare-in-contemporary-christian-music/feed/ 0 Seeing God when our metaphors fail https://www.faithonview.com/seeing-god-when-our-metaphors-fail/ https://www.faithonview.com/seeing-god-when-our-metaphors-fail/#respond Tue, 03 Oct 2023 16:00:44 +0000 https://www.faithonview.com/?p=6818 A two story circa 1890's ranch house is shown at the end of a long driveway lined with white fencing at sunset.Let’s face it, it is absolutely impossible for us to understand an eternal transcendent God and his domain. It is far beyond our comprehension. So, we often use metaphors to make the incomprehensible accessible to ...

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]]> https://www.faithonview.com/seeing-god-when-our-metaphors-fail/feed/ 0 Try loving like Jesus in a small town https://www.faithonview.com/try-loving-like-jesus-in-a-small-town/ https://www.faithonview.com/try-loving-like-jesus-in-a-small-town/#respond Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:00:18 +0000 https://www.faithonview.com/?p=35396 A guitar being played is seen close up from it's widest end with the players strumming hand out of focus and their fret hand in focus.For those enchanted by the charm of small towns, the afterlife holds a surprising twist. Heaven, New Jerusalem, is portrayed as a bustling, vibrant, and large city in Revelation 21:2, where the Apostle John describes ...

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