Hear No Evil - Book Review
Hear No Evil: My Story of Innocence, Music, and the Holy Ghost by Matthew Paul Turner (Waterbrook Press) Matthew Paul Turner and I lived parallel lives--up to that point where he went off to college and got the degree that I probably should have had, and my dream job in the music business. Well, it was the Christian music business, which wasn't part of my dream job, but there you go. Turner is the popular blogger, Christian critic, author, and cultural commentator who writes, comments, critiques and sometimes snarks a bit at www.jesusneedsnewpr.com . Last year a friend sent me Turner's book "Churched," a compilation of essays on growing up as a fundamentalist Baptist. I was thrilled when I saw Hear No Evil was in print, but it took me a while to get to it. It was worth the wait. Hear No Evil essentially chronicles Turner's life story in essays-- as his life relates to music, that is. I couldn't put it down, to be honest. Each ess...