The National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) today announced its honorees for this June's Annual Meeting in New York. The NMPA will honor Grammy-winning and 28-time Gold & Platinum certified songwriter, artist, musician, producer and advocate Ryan Tedder with its Songwriter Icon Award.
Talk about pressure. Imagine waking up and learning you have been identified by your peers as an "Emerging Icon."
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You are at the wedding of a beloved family member or friend, which is taking place at a Lutheran church. You gladly accepted the invitation to celebrate this happy day with the bride and groom. But then there is a call to come to the table of the Lord’s Supper, to receive communion. This is the awkward moment you knew was coming. Can you, and should you, a practicing Catholic, accept the invitation?
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Official Post from Ryan Connell: If there is one good thing I can say about evangelical purity culture, it’s that it is a perfect cover for the shy and socially awkward. It’s not that I can’t get a date, you see, I am choosing not to date. It’s the fundamentalist Christian version of having a “girlfriend that lives in Canada”.I was
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This is a crucial question: How do you receive the Holy Spirit? How do you receive the new life that comes from above?
It took Daft Punk over ten years to fully embrace their robotic image.
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