Uncle Theology
Albums that turn the substance of expository preaching into music — every lyric anchored to Scripture, each with its own sound. Pick an album to listen and study.
John & Them
Street-gospel hip-hop through the eyes of John and his neighbors — abiding in the fire, Chesterton's fence, the bread of Judas, and the long road home — over boom-bap and gospel-choir beats.
Roots of Reason
Reformed theology set to roots reggae — the cave of Plato, the dilemma of Euthyphro, the keys of the apostle, and the empty tomb, all carried on a one-drop riddim.
Barn Dance
Scripture and old hymns kicked up into a warm, string-lit barn dance — Isaiah's courtroom grace, the martyr-hymn's blood-red banner, Bonar's voice of Jesus, and Psalm 1's tree by the water.
Proverbs
The book of Proverbs as a comic-book romp — friendship and folly, the ant and the sluggard, antithetic parallelism as an ’80s action movie, and Agur’s prayer for neither riches nor poverty.
Shady’s Bach
Bach fused with hip-hop — both father (J.S.) and son (C.P.E.) — under classical apologetics in an Eminem cadence: the two books of revelation, Aquinas’s First Mover, the new earth, and the meaning of “foreknown.”
Common Grace
A warm, genre-hopping ode to common grace — the everyday kindness God pours on the whole human race: sun on the sinner, the strawberry made sweet, small-town love, and ordinary-day glory.
That Nazarene
Shoegaze meets the Laurel Canyon — a reverb-drenched, golden-hour record in the vein of Lord Huron: doubt turned to worship, the risen Carpenter King who drew near, and the faithfulness that holds through the drifting and the fall.
Sovereign Driver
A doctrine-of-God record on Tool-heavy prog and baroque hard rock: the God who owes nothing to anyone, descending in the dark all the way to death — the Sovereign Driver who becomes the Sovereign Diver. From aseity, through the eternal decree, down to the incarnation and up to the throne of the slain Lamb.
The Inner Ring
A rock opera on '80s synth and vocoder. Dan is an assistant manager nobody sees, governing six internet kingdoms at three in the morning - until a machine that has read every word he ever wrote invites him to 'the Institute,' where a warm old man stands up for him and says 'I see you.' A retelling of C. S. Lewis's The Inner Ring, The Abolition of Man, and That Hideous Strength: the last thing the machine learns is that people will hand over anything at all to somebody who tells them they were never small.
Psalms of Ascent
Fifteen pilgrim songs for the fifteen Songs of Ascents — Psalms 120 to 134 — sung from the back of a wood-paneled wagon somewhere in the ’80s. Lunchroom bullies and the tents of Kedar, a dad nodding off west of Colby, khakis at dawn, a dog staring at your drumstick, a short king, a holy convoy on the CB, and the nightshift saints who keep the lamps lit. One road, fifteen steps, all the way up to the house of the LORD.