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Katy Perry on Her Strict Evangelical Upbringing: ‘I Didn’t Have a Childhood’

Pop star Katy Perry isn’t shy when it comes to flaunting her body and strutting her stuff with sexually provocative routines and outfits.

Another aspect where the E.T. singer knows no shyness is talking about what it was like growing up with strict evangelical parents.

In an interview out in the latest edition of Vanity Fair magazine, Perry talks about the more constraining aspects of her upbringing.

Forget Dr. Seuss, the only thing Perry says her mother read to her was the Bible, and buying non-Christian music was also a no no.

“I didn’t have a childhood,” said Perry, who was formerly a Christian music artist under the name Katy Hudson before going mainstream.

She also said she feared Planned Parenthood.

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“Growing up, seeing ‘Planned Parenthood’, it was considered like the abortion clinic. I was always scared I was going to get bombed when I was there.”

When it comes to her beliefs nowadays, she’s pretty relaxed. Her husband, comedian Russell Brand, meanwhile, is interested in Hinduism.

“In my faith, you’re just supposed to have faith. At this point, I’m just kind of a drifter. I’m open to possibility,” she said.

With Brand, she’s happy to let him do his own thing and pursue his own spiritual beliefs.

“I come from a very non-accepting family, but I’m very accepting,” the popular singer said.

“Russell is into Hinduism, and I’m not really involved in it. He meditates in the morning and the evening and I’m starting to do it more because it really centers me. But I just let him be him, and he lets me be me.”

Right now, the singer said she is happy to soak in all the experiences life is throwing her way.

“My sponge is so big and wide and I’m soaking everything up and my mind has been radically expanded.”

Her parents have, in the past, expressed their disappointment with their daughter’s artistic style and messaging, but they’re still a family in spite of their strong differences.

“We coexist,” said Perry. “I don’t try to change them anymore, and I don’t think they try to change me. We agree to disagree.”

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Christian Rock Pioneer Larry Norman’s Songs Part 4

I posted a lot in the past about my favorite Christian musicians such as Keith Green (I enjoyed reading Green’s monthly publications too), and 2nd Chapter of Acts and others. Today I wanted to talk about one of Larry Norman’s songs. David Rogers introduced me to Larry Norman’s music in the 1970’s and his album IN ANOTHER LAND came out in 1976 and sold an enormous amount of copies for a Christian record back then.

Larry Norman – 9 – The Sun Began To Rain – In Another Land (1976)

Larry Norman – 10 – Shot Down – In Another Land (1976)

Larry Norman – 11 – Six Sixty Six – In Another Land (1976)

Larry Norman – 12 – Diamonds – In Another Land (1976)

 

 

 

 

In Another Land (album)

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In Another Land
Studio album by Larry Norman
Released	1976
Recorded	1975
Label	Solid Rock Records
Producer	Larry Norman
Larry Norman chronology
So Long Ago the Garden (1973) In Another Land (1976) Streams of White Light (1977)

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In Another Land is an album recorded by Larry Norman and released in 1976. It is the third album in Norman’s “trilogy,” which began with Only Visiting This Planet and continued with So Long Ago the Garden. The album contains some of Norman’s most well-known work.

Contents

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• 1 History
• 2 Tracks
  • 2.1 Original LP release
    • 2.1.1 Side 1
    • 2.1.2 Side 2
  • 2.2 “The Missing Pieces” reissue
  • 2.3 Extra tracks on CD releases
• 3 Covers
• 4 Personnel
• 5 Production notes
• 6 See also
• 7 References

History[edit]

In 1975 Norman recorded In Another Land, the third album in his trilogy, which was released in 1976 through his own Solid Rock label and distributed through Word Records,^[2] making it “the first of his albums to be released on a Christian label”.^[3] However, according to Norman, “In Another Land, was executorially censored by the “mother company” which insisted on removing any music they felt was “too negative” or “too controversial.”^[4] Commercial pressure from Norman’s “American publisher and American and European distributors”^[5] forced Norman to remove four songs from In Another Land: “I Dreamed that I Died”, “Looking for the Footprints”, “Top 40 Survey”, and “You’ll Never Find No One (Who Loves You Like I Do”,^[6] as they believed that Norman had included too many songs, and that the deleted songs could be released on his next album.^[7]One of the songs included on this album was “The Sun Began to Rain” (The Son Began to Reign),^[8] an allegory written by Norman, was “knocked out … in just over a minute” with British comedian Dudley Moore on piano.^[9] In a 1980 interview Norman explained the purpose of In Another Land:

In Another Land is the third part of the trilogy It’s about the future, and rather than speculate about what the future might hold, I tried to stick closely to what the Bible says it will hold. I think because the future orientated album was so directly tied to the scriptures, people felt this is Larry’s best album, because this is the one I like best. Or This is the most Christian album. I think that Only Visiting This Planet or So Long Ago The Garden were much better conceptional statements, much better medicine for a non-Christian to swallow. The front cover of In Another Land posed a problem. I couldn’t really go and stand on a hillside in front of The New Jerusalem, so I just put together a lot of photographs of Israel and photographs of mountainous terrain. The front cover shows a painting of me standing on a hill, for the first time smiling at the camera, because in the new age I won’t be troubled as I have always been on my other albums about things like world hunger, and world ignorance, human anger and jealousy and pettiness.^[10]

Norman provides a more detailed analysis of In Another Land in the producer notes of the 1991 re-issue.^[11] In Another Land was Norman’s best-selling album ever,^[12] and had the best reception of any of his albums from the Christian establishment.^[13] In 2005 Norman recalled:

The Church finally accepted me in 1976, I think it was, and that’s just because I had so many songs people knew that the records stores said, “Okay, I’ll take a chance.” I did In Another Land, which was such a mellow album. It’s really for Christians (none of the other albums were), but what do you say when the concept of the album is eternal life with God in heaven? … Of course they liked that album and the record stores sold it and it was Album of the Month for Word Record Club and it was the #1 seller for a long time.^[14]

By 1985 In Another Land had sold 120,000 copies in the USA alone, compared with average sales of less than ten thousand for other gospel albums,^[7] Responding to the better acceptance of In Another Land by many church leaders who had previously opposed him and his music, Norman indicated in 1980: “I realised that the music itself would probably appeal to the middle of the road Christians who are offended by the extremes in my observations. But if they like this album, and if they suddenly decide that I have returned to the fold and I am now one of them, they’re going to hate the next album – it’s all blues.”^[15] Norman held several concerts in Australia in October 1976.^[16]

A different version of the song “I Love You” was first recorded by Randy Stonehill on the now-rare album Born Twice, which was produced by Larry Norman back in 1969. That album credits Stonehill as the writer of the song. Norman’s version completely changes all the verses, retaining only the first line of the first verse of Stonehill’s original composition.

“Righteous Rocker #3” is a reprise of a song which originally appeared on Only Visiting This Planet.

The album also contains a souped-up version of “Why Don’t You Look Into Jesus,” another song which made its first appearance on Only Visiting This Planet. In the later version the controversial second verse from the original (“Gonorrhea on Valentine’s Day / You’re still looking for the perfect lay,” etc.) is conspicuously absent.

“I Am A Servant” was recorded and popularized as a Christian pop ballad by Christian singer Honeytree.

“Song For A Small Circle Of Friends” was a piece written for Norman’s famous friends in the music industry. The song includes allusions to Randy Stonehill, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones, and Paul McCartney. There has never been any evidence that, other than Stonehill, Norman actually knew any of these people.

Tracks[edit]

Original LP release[edit]

Side 1[edit]

1. “The Rock That Doesn’t Roll”
2. “I Love You” (Larry Norman, Randy Stonehill)
3. “UFO”
4. “I’ve Searched All Around”
5. “Righteous Rocker #3”
6. “Deja Vu (If God Is My Father / Why Don’t You Look Into Jesus)”
7. “I Am A Servant”

Side 2[edit]

1. “The Sun Began To Rain”
2. “Shot Down”
3. “Six, Sixty, Six”
4. “Diamonds”
5. “One Way”
6. “Song For A Small Circle Of Friends”
7. “Hymn To The Last Generation”

“The Missing Pieces” reissue[edit]

“This is the running order on the original master tape which was sent to Word U.K.”^{[citation needed]}

1. “Tuning”
2. “The Rock That Doesn’t Roll”
3. “UFO”
4. “I’ve Searched All Around”
5. “Shot Down”
6. “Song For A Small Circle Of Friends”
7. “The Sun Began To Rain”
8. “Looking For The Footprints”
9. “Six Sixty Six”
10. “Righteous Rocker #3”
11. “If God Is My Father”
12. “Why Don’t You Look Into Jesus”
13. “Diamonds”
14. “One Way”
15. “I Am A Servant”
16. “Hymn To The Last Generation”

Extra tracks on CD releases[edit]

1. “Looking For The Footprints”
2. “Dreams On A Grey Afternoon”
3. “Six Sixty Six” (alternate take)
4. “Strong Love, Strange Peace”
5. “Dear Malcolm, Dear Alwyn”
6. “Joyful Delta Day”
7. “I Don’t Believe In Miracles”

Covers[edit]

Frank Black, a longtime admirer of Norman who became a friend, covered “Six, Sixty, Six” on his album Frank Black and the Catholics.^{[citation needed]}

Personnel[edit]

• Larry Norman: Vocals, Harmonies, Guitar, Percussion, and Piano
• Randy Stonehill: Guitar and backing vocals
• Jon Linn: Guitars
• Dudley Moore: Piano
• Mark Walker: Drums
• Tim Ayres: Bass
• John Michael Talbot: Banjo

Production notes[edit]

• Produced by Larry Norman
• Engineered by Andy Johns
• Assistant engineer Tom Trefethen
• Pre-production recording at Solid Rock studios
• Recorded at Mama Jo’s and Sunset SOund
• Mastered at A&M, Studio 3

See also[edit]

• Larry Norman discography

References[edit]

1. Jump up^ In Another Land at Allmusic
2. Jump up^ “New Music Interview 1980 Part 3”, http://dagsrule.com/stuff/larry/intvw80c.html
3. Jump up^ “Larry Norman – 1947-2008”, Cross Rhythms, http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/articles/news/Larry_Norman__19472008/30703/p1/
4. Jump up^ “Larry Norman (Part 1)”, http://www.onlyvisiting.com/larry/about/story1.html. This is taken from A Moment In Time and Footprints In The Sand CD booklets. See also linear notes, “Looking For the Footprints”, White Blossoms From Black Roots (1997 CD):4.
5. Jump up^ Philip F. Mangano, “Linear Notes”, Only Visiting This Planet re-issue (1978):2.
6. Jump up^ “The Compleat Trilogy” insert in 1978 re-issue of Only Visiting This Planet.
7. ^ Jump up to:^{a b} “Larry Norman Down Under But Not Out”, On Being (1985/1986):7.
8. Jump up^ The alternate title, The Son Began to Reign, was registered on 15 January 1976. See http://www.faqs.org/copyright/why-should-the-devil-have-all-the-good-music-one-way-dear/. For lyrics, see “The Sun Began to Rain”,http://www.onlyvisiting.com/gallery/lyrics/songs/sun/sun.html
9. Jump up^ Larry Norman, liner notes, Rebel Poet, Jukebox Balladeer: The Anthology (September 2007); Linear Notes, “The Sun Began to Rain”,White Blossoms From Black Roots (1997); Mike Rimmer, “A Legend Quizzed”, Cross Rhythms (27 August 2005):2,http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/articles/music/A_Legend_Quizzed/15761/p2/.
10. Jump up^ “New Music Interview 1980 Part 3”, http://dagsrule.com/stuff/larry/intvw80c.html
11. Jump up^ Larry Norman, “Producer’s Notes (Part 1), http://www.onlyvisiting.com/larry/articles/producers_notes1.html; Larry Norman, “Producer’s Notes (Part 2), http://www.onlyvisiting.com/larry/articles/producers_notes2.html; Larry Norman, “Producer’s Notes (Part 3),http://www.onlyvisiting.com/larry/articles/producers_notes3.html
12. Jump up^ See Robert Termorshuizen, “Notes”, http://www.meetjesushere.com/in_another_land.htm
13. Jump up^ See Robert Termorshuizen, “Notes”, http://www.meetjesushere.com/in_another_land.htm
14. Jump up^ David Sanford, “Larry Norman Says Good-Bye” (3 March 2008),http://www.burnsidewriterscollective.com/general/2008/03/larry_norman_says_goodbye.php?page=2
15. Jump up^ “New Music Interview 1980 Part 3”, http://dagsrule.com/stuff/larry/intvw80c.html
16. Jump up^ “Larry Rocks Along with Christ”, The Age (21 October 1976):12.

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During the last twenty years it has been my practice to visit in person with those that don’t agree with my political or religious views and just try to get to know them. Back in 1996 while on a family trip to  New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Delaware, and New Jersey,  we had dinner one night with Herbert A. Tonne, who was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto II. While in Missouri several years ago I got to spend a couple of hours with the former Unitarian minister Lester Mondale and his wife at their cabin.

Several of these meetings led to longtime friendships. The Late Professor John George who has written books for Prometheus Press (a secular humanist group) was my good friend during the last 10 years of his life. (I still miss him today.) We often ate together and were constantly talking on the phone and writing letters to one another. Ed Babinski, the author of LEAVING THE FOLD, has corresponded with me for almost 20 years now, and that goes also for evolutionist Kevin Henke.

On August 7, 2014 I was able to meet another signer of the Humanist Manifesto II, and I must say it we had a delightful time.  I got to visit with Jim and Betty Grace  McCollum, and I gave them a tour of Little Rock Broom Works and how we make brooms and mops. Jim said he really enjoyed visiting manufacturing plants and learning how products were made. As you see below Jim is wearing a Southern Arkansas University shirt where he furthering his education. After living in Rochester, New York for 34 years and practicing law, he moved to Arkansas in 1994. They have been living in Emerson, Arkansas ever since. Below you can see pictured from left to right: Betty Grace and Jim McCollum, Everette Hatcher, and Wilson Hatcher.

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About the Program

THE REAL STORY OF HOW SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS BECAME PART OF AMERICAN LAW – AND THE COURAGEOUS WOMAN WHO MADE IT HAPPEN

She was called “that awful woman” by her neighbors, and “that atheist mother” by newspapers across the country. Her friends stopped returning phone calls rather than risk speaking with her. She was branded a communist, and the Illinois State Legislature nearly outlawed her and her husband from ever working at the state university again. She received up to 200 letters a day, some of the writers claiming they would pray for her; many wishing for much worse.

Vashti McCollum and her son Jim look over her lawsuit.The Champaign News-Gazette

All because, in 1945, Vashti McCollum would file a historic lawsuit that would forever change the relationship between religion and public school in America – and turn this young housewife from central Illinois into an unlikely champion of the separation of church and state.

In 1940, the Champaign, Illinois public school district instituted a voluntary religion class in its grade schools, something that was being done in school districts across the country. Vashti McCollum initially didn’t allow her oldest son, 10 year old Jim, permission to take the religion class. She believed religion was a personal matter, and not one for the schools, but after persistent begging by Jim, she finally relented. Then she saw the materials being used in the class. “It was indoctrination into the old Christian faith,” she remembered. “So I said never again.”

So Jim sat out the class, but he was the only one in his classroom who didn’t have permission to take the religion class. Not knowing what to do with Jim during the time of religion class, the teacher sat him in a desk in the hall, the same place kids were placed when they were punished. Jim suffered brutal bullying as a result and came home in tears. Vashti McCollum decided that was enough. “Never again,” Mrs. McCollum remembered, still angry, “would he be put in the hall.” So she sued the Champaign school district to put a stop to the religion class, beginning a three-year odyssey that would change American public schools forever.

The Lord is Not On Trial Here Today is a Peabody Award-winning documentary that tells the compelling personal story of Vashti McCollum, and how her efforts to protect her ten year-old son led to one of the most important and landmark First Amendment cases in U.S. Supreme Court history — the case that established the separation of church and state in public schools. The case is little-known by the contemporary American public, yet the McCollum decision continues to have important ramifications for current conflicts over the role of religion in public institutions – from displays of the Ten Commandments in government buildings to student-led prayers at public school graduation ceremonies.

The film recounts what Vashti McCollum later described as “three years of headlines, headaches, and hatred,” and the dramatic legal maneuverings that led to a decision that shocked the nation and made the McCollums a household name. “Beautifully researched” according to the Peabody Awards, perhaps one reviewer says it best: “The Lord is Not On Trial Here Today [tells] a little-known story of a woman, a court case, and a movement that changed American society forever.”

The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today is written, produced, and directed by Jay Rosenstein.  Edited by Jude Leak. Music by Wendy Blackstone. Narration by former M*A*S*Htelevision actor David Ogden Stiers.

To learn more about the McCollum case, read Dan McCollum’s book, The Lord Was Not On Trial and Vashti McCollum’s book, One Woman’s Fight. Learn more about the First Amendment at the First Amendment Center.

To learn more about director Jay Rosenstein’s documentaries, visithttp://www.jayrosenstein.com/.

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Vashti Ruth Cromwell, named for the queen of Ahasuerus in the first book of Esther who was one of the few biblical women to stand up for women’s rights,

Here is the Biblical passage about Queen Vashti:

Esther 1-3New International Version (NIV)

Queen Vashti Deposed

1 This is what happened during the time of Xerxes, the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush: ² At that time King Xerxes reigned from his royal throne in the citadel of Susa, ³ and in the third year of his reign he gave a banquet for all his nobles and officials. The military leaders of Persia and Media, the princes, and the nobles of the provinces were present.

⁴ For a full 180 days he displayed the vast wealth of his kingdom and the splendor and glory of his majesty. ⁵ When these days were over, the king gave a banquet, lasting seven days, in the enclosed garden of the king’s palace, for all the people from the least to the greatest who were in the citadel of Susa. ⁶ The garden had hangings of white and blue linen, fastened with cords of white linen and purple material to silver rings on marble pillars. There were couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl and other costly stones. ⁷ Wine was served in goblets of gold, each one different from the other, and the royal wine was abundant, in keeping with the king’s liberality. ⁸ By the king’s command each guest was allowed to drink with no restrictions, for the king instructed all the wine stewards to serve each man what he wished.

⁹ Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes.

¹⁰ On the seventh day, when King Xerxes was in high spirits from wine, he commanded the seven eunuchs who served him—Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar and Karkas— ¹¹ to bring before him Queen Vashti, wearing her royal crown, in order to display her beauty to the people and nobles, for she was lovely to look at.¹² But when the attendants delivered the king’s command, Queen Vashti refused to come. Then the king became furious and burned with anger.

¹³ Since it was customary for the king to consult experts in matters of law and justice, he spoke with the wise men who understood the times ¹⁴ and were closest to the king—Karshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena and Memukan, the seven noblesof Persia and Media who had special access to the king and were highest in the kingdom.

¹⁵ “According to law, what must be done to Queen Vashti?” he asked. “She has not obeyed the command of King Xerxes that the eunuchs have taken to her.”

¹⁶ Then Memukan replied in the presence of the king and the nobles, “Queen Vashti has done wrong, not only against the king but also against all the nobles and the peoples of all the provinces of King Xerxes. ¹⁷ For the queen’s conduct will become known to all the women, and so they will despise their husbands and say, ‘King Xerxes commanded Queen Vashti to be brought before him, but she would not come.’ ¹⁸ This very day the Persian and Median women of the nobility who have heard about the queen’s conduct will respond to all the king’s nobles in the same way. There will be no end of disrespect and discord.

¹⁹ “Therefore, if it pleases the king, let him issue a royal decree and let it be written in the laws of Persia and Media, which cannot be repealed, that Vashti is never again to enter the presence of King Xerxes. Also let the king give her royal position to someone else who is better than she. ²⁰ Then when the king’s edict is proclaimed throughout all his vast realm, all the women will respect their husbands, from the least to the greatest.”

²¹ The king and his nobles were pleased with this advice, so the king did as Memukan proposed. ²² He sent dispatches to all parts of the kingdom, to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language, proclaiming that every man should be ruler over his own household, using his native tongue.

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