Song Snapshots is a column featuring the stories behind new and classic Southern Gospel songs. “Even from your earliest years,” Neil Enloe observes, “the identity of your gender is very strong. And it struck me one day that we are going to be the bride of Christ. Men will be part of the bride! So …
Song Snapshots #26: The Next Time I Get Married (Couriers) Read More »
Song Snapshots is a column featuring the stories behind new and classic Southern Gospel songs. One day, as Neil Enloe was reading his Bible, he came across the Acts 27 account of Paul’s shipwreck. Unlike other versions, the King James Version, which he describes as “the version of my life,” names the storm—”Euroclydon.” He thought …
Song Snapshots is a column featuring the stories behind new and classic Southern Gospel songs. One year, at the Singing News Fan Awards, Joseph Habedank was talking with Chuck Trivette. (Chuck is a former Perrys pianist and is Libbi Perry Stuffle’s brother-in-law.) Chuck told Joseph, “I was thinking it over; when we get to Heaven, …
Song Snapshots #21: Room With a View (11th Hour) Read More »
One day, Sue C. Smith was driving around Nashville thinking about ideas for Christmas songs. “It was spring,” she recalls, “so of course we were all writing Christmas, because that’s what you do as a songwriter!” She adds, “I was thinking about Mary and Joseph and how, even though Mary had been visited by an …