This new album of mine is an attempt to connect.
To connect the first world to the wisdom and beauty of the third world – for the benefit of both. But also to connect two opposing theologies. Two rival gospels.
One side pitches God’s salvation as hope for the soul, something that begins someday when we… 
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Down Here: Hope In Death. Help In Life.
Putting Words To God
“It’s not called ‘the word business’ for a reason,” my co-writer joked as I agonized over the next line of a lyric years ago. I hadn’t been in Nashville long – but long enough to know he was wrong.
Christian music is the only genre defined by its lyrical content and not musical composition and production.…
Recording Day 3: Eldr!
Yesterday was difficult. I was asked again and again to rethink chord choices and melodies, to ask myself if what I’d written was the most artful it could be. And my answer? No. And I’m OK with that.
There’s a subculture of brilliant Nashville musicians who are rebelling against being at-all “commercial” or “CCM” or whatever…
Recording Update: Rewriting
Today Mitch and I begin work in the studio – Starting with rewriting the songs. This is the most painful part of the process for me. It begins with painfully honest critique and ends with changing songs I’ve lived with and grown to love just the way they are.
Critique
I sent a batch of songs over…
Where They’ve Been
“They locked me up for preaching Jesus at the university…”
“The jailers set us free because our prayers and preaching started a revival among the other prisoners and some of the guards…”
“We each had one page of the bible. No one had all of it. We met as often as we could, in secret, to trade…
About Shaun — Shaun Groves is a communicator who’s known by a lot of titles: Singer/songwriter. Speaker. Blogger. Husband. Daddy. Friend. He feels and thinks deeply and laughs easily. And he’s helping Christians discover what they were saved for, and being a voice for children around the world, desperate to be saved from poverty.
