Do You See What I See?

Integrity Music, 2006

By Chris Anderson

December 18, 2006

 
Cliché is the oft-chosen weapon for impotent writing and preaching. Imagine this reviewer’s chagrin when the mother of all illustration clichés—the facets of a diamond—came to mind when pondering the brilliance of Todd Agnew’s Christmas album, Do You See What I See.

 

By Jeff Guin, Penguin Group, 2006
Reviewed by David Agriesti
December 11, 2006

 

The author of The Great Santa Search is given on the cover as follows: “As told to Jeff Guinn by Santa Claus himself.”  Since this is an autobiographical work, the central figure of this book is the fellow known as Santa Claus in the United States, but also in other parts of the world as Father Christmas, Pere Noel, or Kris Kringle, and with a change of gender and language, as la Befana.  He is known to live at the North Pole, although until 1913 most people don’t know that he lived in Cooperstown, New York (page 141).

 

Reviewed by Kent d Curry
November 27, 2006

While the Blues are considered an original American art form (with perhaps four others), most Americans today would be hard-pressed to name a contemporary giant in the field. That’s why most people have never heard of Jonny Lang, which is a shame because they’re missing so much.

Directed by Steve Taylor, 2006

Reviewed by Josh Lewis

 

Can a movie change a person?  This is a question asked in the behind-the-scenes commentary for The Second Chance.  After viewing this DVD, my answer is, “I hope so!”

2006, BEC Recordings

By Benjamin Meydam

November 20, 2006

 
 

For an artist with so many significant previous projects, it is no wonder Jeremy Camp scores again in his latest venture, Beyond Measure.

By Marianne J. Legato, with Laura Tucker. Rodale, 2005. 248 pp.

Reviewed by Alison Andrews
October 30, 2006
 

Four-year-olds are very interested in distinguishing between men and women. My daughter is quick to point out physical characteristics that don’t meet her expectations. (I’ll never forget the time she pointed to a burly man dressed like a Hell’s Angel whose graying hair brushed his shoulders, and said loudly, “That daddy has hair like a girl!”)

Word Records, 2006
Reviewed by Bruce Little

November 13, 2006

 

From the dawn of her career, I have followed and loved Amy Grant’s Christian music.  With the release of her first self-titled album as a 17-year-old to her Time Again…Amy Grant Live release at 45-years-old, Amy has written, co-written, performed, and sung some great tunes, and I am thrilled with this new release.  Yes, it does contain a lot of her secular “hits” along with the Christian tunes I enjoy so much, but this project is especially noteworthy as it weaves the two like a tapestry of life.  I find warmth in the way she presents her songs and combines the two forces of music into one beautiful evening of song in a kind of “reflection of life.”

 

2006, Integrity / INO

By Christopher Anderson
 

Color me “purist,” but I get offended when marketers misuse words with misleading intentions. Such is the case with Joy to the World: The Ultimate Christmas Collection. Ultimate?! Hmmm. . .

Reviewed by Jamin Tuttle                              

 

By Christopher Anderson