I’ll be honest. I’ve been sitting here for at least three minutes trying to think of something funny and snarky to say about these guys, but I’ve got nothing. Everything I could possibly say would be trumped just by looking at the above photo. But in case that doesn’t do it for you, don’t worry, we’ve got video, too!
Sorry we’ve been silent this week! A trip to Chicago beckoned, sorry I didn’t warn you. We come back today with lovely memories of 7Ball Magazine. Anyone else love this magazine besides me?
There’s not a lot of great stuff on the 7Ball floating on the internet, but for funsies, here’s an article from an old 7Ball on a “new artist”, at the ripe old age of 16, Katy Hudson, otherwise known now as Katy Perry.
MONDAY: Why Should The Devil Have All The Mediocre Music?
True story: When this song got really popular (even in mainstream pop charts), I was about 10 or 11 years old. I called the local top 40 request line to request this song. The female DJ openly mocked me on air for requesting this song. “Why does everyone like this guy so much? His voice is super weak. He’s really terrible!” I don’t remember what I said, but I do remember feeling like I wanted to cry. She played the song anyway.
In retrospect, she may have been right on some things, but mocking 10 year olds on the radio still isn’t cool.
This song was so huge that it even made it to the little suburban church (and youth group) where this white girl attended.
Watching it now, I just wish I could actually dance.
Also: Hey look! It’s Salt! From Salt-N-Peppa-N-Thatothergirlthatdoesn’tgettohavehernameinourbandname!
Anyone remember Sword Drills? I completely forgot about them til @sjgarver reminded me. Being both an uber Bible nerd and extremely competitive, I won a lot of these. I don’t mean to brag or anything though. I boast only in the Lord.
And the mad skillz he blessed me with.
“2 KINGS 2:23-24!!! CHARGE!”“
-The ChristiaNostalgette
(P.S. So apparently Sword Drills have now made it to Scotland? I thought I knew every youth minister in Scotland from 2002-2006 and this never came up on my radar.)
It’s GOOD FRIDAY! Every Friday, to counter all the cringe worthy yuck around here (have I really posted 3 Carman videos this week?!), and because Fridays are generally awesome, we’re going to post some of the BEST out of church in the 70s-90s. It’s good to have reminders of God moving among his people….even when we had really terrible taste in clothing (and pretty much everything else).
I realize “good” and “bad” are purely subjective here, so if you disagree, feel free to submit your own, I’ll post them! - The ChristiaNostalgette
Today’s Good Friday Post: “World’s Apart” by Jars of Clay. (This song completely wrecked me back in high school…in a very good way.)
THURSDAY’S THEOLOGICALLY QUESTIONABLE SONG LYRICS: “America Again” by Carman
I cannot even begin to start at how much of this song irritates me, and how much of this song is straight up false. Thomas Jefferson wasn’t a Christian, we can start there. And that Bible he loved? He cut out the parts he didn’t like.
For some real fun, you can read all the lyrics, all 19 stanzas (if you can call them that? is he rapping?) here.
Other Offending (or Offensive?) Lyrics:
In the ‘40’s and ‘50’s student problems were chewing gum and talking
In the ‘90’s, rape and murder are the trend
The only way this nation can even hope to last this decade
Is put God in America again
As a commenter on YouTube put it: “100% true, no one was raped or murdered before the 1990’s.” (Thanks, Tonydelacruz45) And good thing segregation was keeping all the riff raff out back then, the 50s were GREAT!* And lets face it, unless this place becomes a theocracy we can’t even hope to be left as a nation past 2003!!! Wait, what? It’s 2011? Oh. Um. This is awkward.
Also, when did God “leave” America? Is He on vacation?
So when you eliminate the Word of God from the classroom and politics
You eliminate the nation that Word protects
Newsflash: My Bible says nothing about how God will “protect” America as a country, and especially not based on how “good we are” and how moral we can be. Or how much we use the Bible in classrooms or in our political systems. Christianity has historically flourished when the opposite is true.
There’s more I could say on that one, but I’ll stop.
If you feel the need to cleanse the palate a bit after the above video, feel free to go here.
*Sarcasm
SPOTTED IN THE WILD: Yes, I still have my HOT PINK Teen Study Bible. I remember when I got it and where (Metcalf South Mall, Overland Park, Kansas). I was super stoked, not only because it was hot pink, but because it had a bunch of stuff about sex in it. Little did I realize that the Bible already had a bunch of stuff about sex in it. - The ChristiaNostalgette
(P.S. Send in your own photos for SPOTTED IN THE WILD WEDNESDAYS. New photos with old stuff, old photos with old stuff, show us what you got! Click on “Submit” or send an email to christianostalgia@gmail.com)
“I actually think it was the second Yo! Kidz that I had a cassette of in the early 90s. I wore that thing out. It was around that time that I went to an actual Carman concert (The Standard, I believe) where there were grown men dancing in formation with flags and lights and fog machines.” - Casey Dukes
“MOOOOM, can we go to Chick-fil-A?! They have the tapes in the kids meal!”
Not exactly known for it’s ethnic diversity, but IMHO, Adventures in Odyssey was (is) pretty quality kids programming.
(“Besides, isn’t ‘Rapping for Jesus’ ethnically diverse?! Can’t we just use that?!” - Youth Pastor Scott)
And for the really hardcore among you, I present: Adventures in Odyssey Wiki.
