by Jeremiah Nighthawk Taylor | Sep 25, 2021 | Blog
I first heard Elvis Presley perform “If I Can Dream” on December 3, 1968 as it premiered before my eyes in the finale of his televised “Elvis” special, later known as the ’68 Comeback Special. Like its companion piece of the following year, “In the Ghetto,” it...
by Pamela Danziger | Aug 24, 2021 | Blog
Listen to any prosperity gospel preacher and implicit in their teaching, couched in holy-sounding words, is the message that God doesn’t want you sick, poor or unhappy. He can make you healthy, prosperous and giddily happy if you follow their teachings, along with...
by Jeremiah Nighthawk Taylor | Aug 7, 2021 | Blog
The “Folk Revival” of the late 1950s inspired an interest in the early recorded acoustic blues music of the 1920s and 30s – blues being an expression of folk music from the Deep South. Those who recorded the blues back then were black, so it was made available on what...
by Jeremiah Nighthawk Taylor | Jul 8, 2021 | Blog, Rock and Rollers, Uncategorized
In 1967, a prodigy of pop music appeared in southern California. Emitt Rhodes was a teenage wunderkind. His angelic tenor would soon render dozens of self-penned pieces in a rapidly-evolving style of lyrical and melodic beauty. The quality, maturity and moral tone...
by Pamela Danziger | Jun 29, 2021 | Blog
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age. (Matthew 28: 19-20)...
by Jeremiah Nighthawk Taylor | May 28, 2021 | Blog, Uncategorized
In the mid-1970s the health and fitness craze had begun. “Health club” chains sprang up around the country. In 1976, after being in and out of universities for a few years, I found myself working at one of these clubs in an affluent northern New Jersey...
