I have loved this hymn since I first heard it twenty years ago, when I came into the church. We always sang it in an up-tempo way, but many versions on YouTube are slow and warbling and kind of lame. Well, fear not ... the boys of Flatfoot 56 (a Christian Celtic Punk band out of Chicago) have produced the most rocking version of I'll Fly Away that I have ever heard. Enjoy!

(One from the archives. Written 25th February 2005. I think it still stands.)

While talking to a few of my co-workers, I mentioned my personal definition of job security and they liked it so much that I thought that I'd share it here as well, in the hope that it can equip someone else to be prepared for unexpected unemployment. The real definition of:

Job security is being able to get another job tomorrow, not still having the same job tomorrow.

A classic spiritual tune sensitively delivered by Eric Clapton.

A perky offering this time. Dave Edmunds takes the already energetic Sabre Dance by Aram Khachaturian and turns it up to eleven.

An interesting meme that gets thrown around frequently is that men need to be in touch with their feminine side. This is a feminist trope that is both wrong and unhelpful. The inference is that men are unbalanced when they are being manly and that it would be better if they would behave more like women. If this was true, would not it be logical for the same people to also direct women to get in touch with their masculine side? Of course it would, but you never hear this voiced to women. The entire responsibility is placed upon the men to behave more like women.

The reason that women are not told to get in touch with their masculine side is that women know that they don't have a masculine side. It's very simple. women know they don't have one, so they know that it would be pointless to suggest such a thing to other women. And for the record, guys also know that women don't have a masculine side so we know better than to suggest it. Besides, we like women being feminine, so why would we want to change that?

You never hear guys (manly ones, anyway) telling each other that they need to get in touch with their feminine side. This is because we know that we possess no such thing. Men don't have a feminine side. And that's alright, because the ladies don't have a masculine side either. The good Lord made us men to be 100% masculine and that's how we operate best. We are entirely unlike women once you get past the basic similarities of having the same number of arms and legs. We act and think in masculine patterns.