Yet Another Reason to Be Concerned About Global Warming

“But not all languages are equally musical. The musical-poetical language Rousseau discusses arose in the south, where the bountifulness of the climate made survival relatively easy. As a result, southern languages express the yearnings of the ‘heart,’ specifically the longing for romantic attachment to a person of the opposite sex” [Carson Holloway, All Shook Up: …

Superficial Education Reform

“Consequently, many Christians involved in modern Christian education need to adopt a more comprehensive vision for education. A Christian education is not a process that dabbles around the edges or tires to improve something in need of radical reformation through a simple rearrangement. We may have seen a stsudent who has a basic problem — …

A Significant Omission

“It is not much of an exaggeration to say that music, as an issue of political consequence, vanishes in the political philosophy of early modernity. The intellectual architects of modern liberalism do not acknowledge the public significance of music’s power over the soul” [Carson Holloway, All Shook Up: Music, Passion, and Politics (Dallas: Spence Publishing, …

Are Rock and Blues Cousins?

“Thus, despite rock’s claim to have arisen from the blues, its character differs decisively from that of the older and, to Pattison’s mind, less vulgar genre. While rock deals with may of the same themes as the blues, sex and alcohol prominent among them, it approaches them with a ‘passionate intensity’ that naturally follows from …