Recently, I posted an entry about Mark Johnson, audio engineer and musician extraordinaire. Mark sent me email pointing me to some of his more recent work that he has posted publicly.

So go check out some of Mark’s work, where he has taken recordings from worship services and added some very hip music. Now, I know some of you Unitarian Universalists are not going to agree entirely with Mark’s theology, but I think you will like “God Will Make a Way” even if you have to do a little translating around the word God. (And click on his other two screen names, “Black Mark” and “X Mark” to listen to some of his non-religious work.)

Besides, the theology is what I want to focus on. I want to focus on what somebody like Mark can do with a recording of a minister. Why can’t we make our religious message danceable? And hip? And fun? As Emma Goldman said, “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be a part of your revolution” (she really meant to say “church,” not “revolution).

Why is it we Unitarian Universalists stick with four-square hymns and old hippie music and Beatles songs? Those kinds of songs are fine, but every once in a while I would like something a little more… contemporary.