I’m in total agreement with you on the issue of sincerity in much of Christian music. I wrestle with the tension of how to offer genuine hope in a song – sometimes that means it doesn’t resolve… and yet there are times when I think there can be resolution – we do live in a world where Easter happened, after all – but even then, how do you do it just right?

Bono talked about how a song about joy is the hardest kind to write, and the hardest emotion to get right, and I wonder if he was referring to this, too. Sadness is easy to write about, but a convincing and compelling song about joy… well, I’ve found that what Bono says is true, it’s the hardest kind of song to write… and yet a challenge I like to take on.

Anyway, my main thing I wanted to let you know about here as a fellow monster fan of Magnolia (I ran into John C. Reilly at the airport a couple of weeks ago and thanked him for his performance), my friend Pete Peterson and I wrote a blog about the film here: http://www.rabbitroom.com/?p=6595

I think you might like it! Hope our paths cross again, thanks for dropping by my blog Justin.

http://www.rabbitroom.com/?p=8187

I’m still listening to your record on a near-daily basis, Justin. It’s just so awesome.

Tony

and this: In this light, I would even go so far as to say that to force a resolution is to give in to the fear that a true resolution might not be there at all; that I must create or even fake it. It strikes me that this is what is most disappointing about much art in the christian marketplace. Not that it’s cheesy or even that it’s particularly bad; what is most disappointing is that it is insincere.