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How Music Makers Help Us Make Sense of God's World (with Sandra McCracken)

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News, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

51.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Host Curtis Chang explores the intersection of faith, music, and biblical harmony with acclaimed singer-songwriter Sandra McCracken in a conversation focusing on the craft of scripture-soaked songwriting. While discussing the influences that have shaped Sandra’s art, they unravel the importance of music in our daily lives and worship routines. The pair also share insights from a recent collaboration between the Porter’s Gate and Redeeming Babel that produced a new batch of songs that fosters unity amidst today's political divisions.

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See Sandra McCracken on tour: dates here!

Buy Sandra’s Book: Send Out Your Light: The Illuminating Power of Scripture and Song

Music mentioned in the episode:

Psalms (album) by Sandra McCracken

We Will Feast In The House of Zion by Sandra McCracken

Steadfast by Sandra McCracken

Trinity Song by Sandra McCracken

Fool's Gold by Sandra McCracken

Song For Rachel by Sandra McCracken

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, before we get started, I just wanted to give a shout out of thanks to everyone who showed up to our April 19th big national launch event in Washington, D.C. for the after party live.

0:14.1

We had hundreds of folks come.

0:15.6

It was so touching to hear stories,

0:17.9

to meet people and just be together in person,

0:21.8

celebrating Jesus as the Lord of all of us, including over all of our

0:26.2

political divisions and we had a great especially evening concert with

0:29.5

Porter's Gate where we began to unveil some of the songs of the after party that we're

0:34.2

super excited to be seeing together as a church. So all in all it was an

0:39.6

incredibly encouraging event. Thank you for the hundreds of folks who showed up from places as

0:44.6

far as Oregon, Idaho, California, just the the friendships that got formed and the

0:51.7

stories that were shared really a memorable day and evening.

0:55.0

Thanks again everyone. Welcome to the Good Faith Podcast. I'm your host, Curtis Chang and the Good Faith

1:19.2

Podcast is a production of Redeeming Babel. And it's where friends who follow Jesus help each other make

1:26.0

sense of the world. And we've covered in past podcasts, particularly the one with Andy

1:31.0

Crouch recently,

1:32.5

about how music is crucial to how God has created us

1:36.8

to make sense of the world,

1:38.7

which means music makers are an especially important guide to us in making sense of the world.

1:46.0

And for this podcast, I have the special privilege of welcoming a music maker that has been very important to me for me in making sense of the world

1:56.6

and that's Sandra McCracken. Sandra McCracken is a Grammy nominated and Dove Award winning singer-songwriter and him writer from Nashville, Tennessee.

2:05.0

She's the author of Send Out Your Light,

2:07.9

the illuminating power of scripture and song is a topic we're going to talk about.

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