I have been a bit too busy working on video editing to continually update the “press” section of my website on the fly, as coverage comes in. Most of the attention so far has come from blogs, which (luckily) leave the posts up forever. Here are some of the blogs mentioning my project since its release:

• Harvard Divinity School
• Northern Spirit Radio
• Duke Divinity School
• Earlham School of Religion
• The Lamb’s War
• QuakerQuaker.org

As a sidenote, if you’re reading this and you can think of someone whose job or hobby it is to review or cover music… particularly someone whose eyes might light up upon hearing Clothe Yourself in Righteousness, please let me know on the contact page!

A few weeks ago, Jon talked with Mark Helpsmeet of Northern Spirit Radio about the Clothe Yourself in Righteousness project.

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Cream in My Coffee
“The video itself is like a family movie. Every single archetype that defines our modern “Quaker experience” is there. The lyrics, particularly the line about “I’m not a Christian, but I’m a Quaker”, bothered me in the same way that they bothered my mother [but] I did a little… research… This song is a testimony from one point along his journey from being a un-Bible-d liberal Friend to very possibly becoming a deeply spiritual, faithful leader in the community.”

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Music and Ministry Among Friends: An Interview with Jon Watts

“One of my favorite Quakers Jim Corbett said ‘Verse can make false inspiration obvious, even when a line almost fits… a line that fails to fit is obvious to meta-conscious awareness, which recognizes contrived inspiration the same way it recognizes an idol. A line that fails to fit holds attention in the present, while the composer stops to listen for the line that has meta-conscious approval.’

People with a gift of ministry have that gift whether we name it and support them in it or not. When I am writing a song, I am being faithful to God. Period. If I’m not, we’ll all be able to hear it, because the song will suck.

You know that one line in your favorite artist’s most recent album that makes you cringe when you hear it? Yeah, that’s the “not God”. That artist had to meet a deadline or forgot what it was all about for a moment and forced it through. Sometimes it takes a painful amount of waiting. But that’s better than releasing crappy songs.”

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The Most Heroic Hero of the Decade, Maybe the Century

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