Songs

As you know, we are BIG fans of the ladies from Rain for Roots. Great news! Their new album of Advent songs is out and ready to be enjoyed for the coming season and beyond. The record is Waiting Songs, and it’s excellent. Here’s a song for your Friday from the new album: Isaiah 11….

Leaven Bread by Rain for Roots from Rain for Roots on Vimeo. I love the collaboration that happened on Leaven Bread. It was a rare moment of us being able to gather in the room together, to talk about the text. To wrestle with the implications and to try to honor the context in which…

Our family loves this music. Get the record here.

This past Spring, we visited the High School our eldest (Livi) is scheduled to attend this Fall.  Beneath a painting, framed in the hallway, I spied this verse:   “We are God’s Masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus. So we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.”   I…

A new song from Slugs & Bugs! If you enjoyed that…I’ve got good news. There is more Slugs & Bugs music on the way. This is music our entire family loves, from 3 to 38. On our way home from Inkwell, someone popped in an older Slugs & Bugs CD, one we hadn’t heard in…

I started writing  songs about family life when my kids were tiny. The first songs were lullabies and odes to diaper changes. Then came Slugs & Bugs and songs about lost pajamas, ninjas, and swinging on the swing set. Now, at 14, 12 and almost 8, the content has morphed again. When our oldest (Livi)…

If you are looking to help your kids memorize the books of the Bible, let me suggest these songs from Randall’s Sing the Bible with Slugs & Bugs. The entire record is excellent, and I’ll share 5 reasons why our family loves it below, after the videos. But for now, here’s a couple of songs for…