Rebecca St. James (with Erin McGown)
Good Christian Fun
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4.6 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2018
⏱️ 138 minutes
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Erin McGown (@erinmcgown) joins Kevin & Caroline to talk all about Rebecca St. James!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, just wanted to let you know that tickets are now on sale for our first live show of the year in our first live show in Los Angeles, California. |
| 0:10.8 | Specifically Pasadena, California. |
| 0:12.8 | We are doing a show here in our hometown on March the 17th at Rose City Church in Pasadena because as it turns out, churches are not that hard to book as a venue for this show. |
| 0:25.2 | So even though it's a church venue, don't worry. I mean, we are making you go to church if you come to this show. I'm sorry, but you know, as you trust us, you trust our hearts. It's not a trap. |
| 0:36.4 | I promise it's not a trap. |
| 0:38.4 | Tickets are now on sale. You can go to GoodChristianFun.com slash live to get your tickets now and we hope to see you there. |
| 0:45.4 | This is a headgun podcast. |
| 0:48.8 | Question. |
| 0:52.8 | What do pas lemon and Rebecca St. James have in Camin? |
| 0:57.8 | They both hail from Australia, mate. Sydney, Australia. |
| 1:03.8 | Should I redo that? |
| 1:07.8 | Born Rebecca Jean small bone, the singer, futurely known as Rebecca St. James, got her start and this is true at age 12 opening for Carmen on his Australian tour. |
| 1:25.8 | Australia again. |
| 1:28.8 | She soon released an independent album Refresh My Heart at age 13 in 1991. |
| 1:34.8 | Her self-titled major label debut would follow in 94 and she then continued to evolve as you would imagine a Christian pop artist would plus her minus a few big flannel shirts. |
| 1:45.8 | But while her vocal, solemn musical arrangements in the 90s would share much DNA with the last more Zets, Rebecca went on record in an unusually defensive sounding interview to say, |
| 1:55.8 | I don't listen to secular radio. I don't touch that stuff. I would never in a million years by in a last more Zets song except if I was passing through a room when someone else was listening to it. |
| 2:07.8 | This almost impressive opting out of pop culture would come to a head on her 2000 album Transform, which featured the unofficial true love wait anthem, Wait For Me, an O-tapurity in the form of a letter to Rebecca's hypothetical future husband. |
| 2:25.8 | On the subject, Rebecca said, the idea for this song came from letters I have written to my future husband that I will one day give him. |
| 2:31.8 | I've seen it not just to give him but on behalf of young women today, encouraging the future husbands of our generation to say sexually pure, to wait for us. |
| 2:40.8 | From then on, sexual purity became Rebecca St. James's franchise, writing a book on the subject, Wait For Me, Colin, rediscovering the joy of purity and romance. |
| 2:51.8 | The Wait For Me journal, Colin, thoughts for my future husband and The Wait For Me study guide, Colin, discover the power of purity. |
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