Derek Webb - What Matters More?
Posted by aaronjen | Filed under Music
I blogged about Derek Webb’s album Stockholm Syndrome earlier and have had more of a chance to listen to the album and read a bit more of the ‘controversy’ this song has caused.
Scot McKnight blogs about this song - mainly asking what people have heard and think about the song. McKnight doesn’t know much about Derek Webb so for that reason was asking what other people thought about the song/artist etc. A number of responses to McKnight’s questions seemed to be directed at Derek Webb’s artistic ability and not directly at the questions of whether the song was appropriate etc.
I’ve also read elsewhere opposing views as to whether or not the issue of homosexuality is in fact still an issue. A number of people at both McKnight’s and Burnside Writer’s blogs believe that “What Matters More” is a little bit too late. I don’t think this is the case…I think, maybe on paper some Christians attitudes towards sexuality have changed, but I’d say in practice there is still a hesitation towards acceptance of people regardless of sexuality.
I think that Webb is asking the question about what matters more to highlight that instead of trying to correct other peoples’ behavior, we should focus on things that we can make a difference with, such as loving others, justice, and worrying about our own walk. - ALR
Tags: Derek Webb, Scot McKnight, sexuality, What Matters More
Derek Webb, Stockholm Syndrome
Posted by aaronjen | Filed under Music
We downloaded Derek W
ebb’s latest album Stockholm Syndrome today and looks like it’s gonna be his best to date. The physical album doesn’t hit stores (those who will sell it…) until September, but the complete album is available for download right now from Webb’s website. There is going to be two versions of the album - a “clean” version and an “explicit” version due to controversy with INO, Webb’s record label, surrounding the song “What Matters More”, which apparently won’t be included on the INO released “clean”/Christian bookstore version.
We have watched a 60 minute documentary “Paradise is a parking lot” about the making of the album and the snippets of tunes we’ve heard from that point to a great sounding, lyrically challenging, album.
One thing we’re trying to work out from the documentary is whether or not DW is playing a Maton for one or two of the songs - we’ll keep you posted!
More to come after we’ve had a good listen to the album. - ALR
Tags: Derek Webb, Maton, Paradise is a parking lot, Stockholm Syndrome, What Matters More
