Music Matters: Singing My Life Back To Me
(Neko Case, "This Tornado Loves You,"lyrics here.)I can't sing.When I was a kid, I wound up in chorus rather than regular music classes by dint of having been in theater—which of course in elementary...
View ArticlePreacher's Daughter: An Introduction
My name is Kristin Rawls, and, yes, I am a preacher's daughter. I'm in my early 30s, and I was raised in an unusual blend of Protestant traditions. The preacher (my dad) grew up in the Southern Baptist...
View ArticlePreacher's Daughter: Love in the Time of Apocalypse
Over at Global Comment back in May, Bitch contributor Emily Manuel argued that "jokes about the Rapture express a deeper anxiety about the decidedly apocalyptic times we live in." She cited natural...
View ArticlePreacher's Daughter: Willow, Xander, and the Prayer of St. Francis
Season six is my favorite season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I like the dark themes, and I like seeing Willow grow up and mature as a result of her grief. (I also like the musical episode.) Recently,...
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Preacher's Daughter: Evangelical Wedding Songs: Wifely Submission and the...
Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsAfter she read my last post about sexist Christian music, my friend, Sarah Morice Brubaker of Religion Dispatches, told me I'd gotten a...
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