Photo: Szoki Adams on Flickr My car dashboard has been endowed with a lifetime of secrets. The poor thing. There's something freeing about being and feeling far away from the ears and influence of another human being. I like my own space. I like my own company. Something I have always felt in my bones. I don't know why I have this urge. Maybe it's from being misunderstood more often than not. Maybe it's from having grown up in the micro-managed moral environment of evangelical Christianity. I...

These are strange days. Before me sits a pile of fifteen cassettes, each one 30-35 years old. (Or more.) Yellowed labels, stuck on as early as the late 1980s, are being removed with mineral spirits and Q-tips. They document the names of sermons with titles like "Baptism - now what?" Spiritual Response to Demonic & Occult," and "Joy." I bought the tapes at auction, anticipating a project like this one would come along - braying old preachers taped over, muzzled for once. Inserts hand cut and...

Kinda crazy journey over this last year, what with all the legal maneuvering in getting the masters back, finding old files, and placing our first ever band vinyl order. We'd never done a crowdfunding campaign before, collectively nor individually, and this itself was its own learning curve. But here we are in the final stages of all of this - the artifact is made, funded, and preparing to be widely released upon the earth. As we draw down into this final stage, here are a few things you can...