See if you agree….Ten Most Redeeming Films according to Christianity Today. Perhaps more attention should be paid to what we deem redemptive? Are there any missing?

Embrace Chris Martin of Coldplay actually wrote a song for Embrace’s self-entitled album (below) called “Gravity.” Embrace is a mix of U2 and Coldplay with distinctive vocals, a definite stadium band. Also check out “Glorious,” “Ashes,” and “Someday.” Lyrics are middle of the road.

Keane Newcomer Keane blew me away when they opened for U2 last year. Tom’s vocals have a range like few piano-driven bands out there. The amazing thing is that they don’t even have a guitarist. Lyrics are sometimes cryptic, but fairly introspective and, at times, illuminating. Check the reference to the Sermon on the Mount in the great story in “Frog Prince.”

“[I]f the New Testament is right, Christ did not come to pluck souls from

an evil and worthless creation and transport them to an angelic existence;

instead he came to announce the beginning of the world’s renewal.”

-- Norman Klassen and Jens Zimmermann, 

The Passionate Intellect: Incarnational Humanism 

and the Future of University Education (2006)