He explained the story behind one of the more notorious photos from the trip, which showed the couple reaching through a chain link fence to touch the hands of Jamaicans on the other side. I’m thinking about doing a live recording of it at Munger one night.According to Rooke, the Caribbean tour wasn’t as tense on the ground as it might have seemed in the headlines, and Kate and William did get a positive reaction, especially as they traveled in Jamaica. Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, I love singing that stuff. Besides that, I want to make a record of old country standards. There’s a breakfast and a whole big deal. For the White Rock Lake Centennial, on June 26, we’re doing a church service at the Bath House (Cultural Center). There will be more satellite churches that pop up, and they will be communicated in a way that fits their community.Īt Munger Place, we’re really involved in the community. And what we’re doing at Munger beautifully serves East Dallas. What they do at Highland Park UMC beautifully serves that community. Paul Rasmussen wants to deliver the same message but in the context of that community. I don’t change the lyrics to songs, but I think there are songs like “Got to Get You Into My Life” that just make you happy you rolled out of bed. We’ve done Nirvana Earth, Wind & Fire the Beatles. We were slated to do Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes”, but my son actually fainted in church, and we didn’t get to that one. So I write songs that have broader appeal and don’t exclude people.Īt church this Sunday, we did a song from The Call, that great ’80’s band. A lot of Christian music is about being born again, and that really excludes a lot of people. I try to write songs that express my real life experiences. At Munger Place, we want to provide a place where people can come as they are and have an experience with God. But that’s how mainstream church expects you to act. The idea that you have to compartmentalize your spiritual self from the rest of your life is not how we’re wired. But we’re the people that have the fun and break the rules and sort of color outside the lines. You know, we’re a satellite church of Highland Park United Methodist Church. Tell us about what you do at Munger Place. It’s just rock-n-roll, and it’s still my most successful record. That record took me around the world three or four times. We actually recorded it at the Roxy on the Sunset Strip. I ended up doing a record there with that congregation. So we ended up having a church whose music was really just rock-n-roll. I ended up leading worship there, but I didn’t know enough to take what I was doing in the clubs and clean it up and make it churchy. I was raised Baptist, so it gave me a different idea of what church could be like. I was going to church in Malibu, at the Malibu Vineyard, which is nondenominational. I was in my 20s, and it was all going really great. ![]() I was pursuing all that and doing a really good job. In 1992, I was named Female Acoustic Artist of the Year by the National Academy of Songwriters. I had my season of being the darling of (music publishing association) ASCAP. Tell us a little bit about your music career. When it came time for him to staff the church for music, he asked me, and I said, “Hell no.” Pastor Paul Rasmussen knew about me six or seven years ago, and I’ve just been on his radar since then. How did you get involved with the Munger Place Church? She says the experience brought her closer to God than ever before. The divorce left her financially ruined and living in a 500-square-foot apartment near DFW Airport. Her life changed dramatically almost five years ago, when she was excommunicated from a Christian church in North Texas because, as she puts it, she “failed at marriage”. As a member of the Malibu Vineyard Christian Fellowship church in her native California, Miner discovered her talent for leading worship, and she became internationally known for her unique style of worship music. Her most famous album, “Live from the Strip”, was released in 1999, but she has recorded a total of seven albums since 1994. Kate Miner is music director at Munger Place Church, and she is a musician with a long and successful career as a songwriter, performer and recording artist.
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