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Jason Gray wrote a new post, "I'm Proud Of You" – My New Hero 4 years ago
[With the release of the documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (which you should all go see immediately!) we thought we’d repost this excellent article from Jason Gray.]
“L’essentiel est invisible pour les y […]
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Jason Gray wrote a new post, Making My Peace with Halloween 4 years, 7 months ago
I posted this a few years ago, and since there are new readers who have gathered in the Rabbit Room since, I thought I’d repost (and revise) it. I hope it’s helpful and edifying.
A couple nights ago, as I was […]
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Jason Gray wrote a new post, The First Word On: Love Will Have The Final Word 8 years, 2 months ago
After months of hard work, Love Will Have The Final Word is finally finished, released, and in listeners’ hands. The record is more intentionally acoustic, but is less about sonic reinvention than it is about […]
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Jason Gray wrote a new post, Not Right Now 8 years, 3 months ago
Following is the piece I wrote as an essay for the special edition of my new record, Love Will Have The Final Word.
The suffering of others can make us talkative, loosening the tongues of even the most timid […]
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Jason Gray wrote a new post, With Every Act Of Love 8 years, 3 months ago
“With Every Act of Love” was the last song to be written for my new record. Knowing I didn’t really have a song that felt like the lead single, I turned to N. T. Wright’s Surprised By Hope for inspiration in a wr […]
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Jason Gray wrote a new post, Nothing Is Wasted: Thoughts On A Music Video 9 years, 2 months ago
I’m grateful to be able to announce the official “Nothing Is Wasted” music video! Several weeks ago, I wrote a piece about how “Nothing Is Wasted” came to be chosen as the next single and why a new mix was made […]
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Jason Gray wrote a new post, "You Gotta Hear This…" Andrew Peterson and Jason Gray on Tour 9 years, 4 months ago
In 2003 I was a dreaming indie artist meeting with people in Nashville who I hoped might champion my music and make life a little easier by rescuing me from obscurity (oh how naïve I was about the way the music […]
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Jason Gray wrote a new post, Song of the Week: Jason Gray – "Nothing Is Wasted" (Remix) 9 years, 4 months ago
When Centricity (my record label) is considering which song should be the next single to promote to radio, they will do “pre-testing”, which means they hire a service who plays a portion of the song (so […]
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Jason Gray wrote a new post, Caring For The Right Thing At The Right Time 9 years, 5 months ago
The other night while we were washing dishes, my son Jacob said he’d seen a trailer for a movie he wanted to see. “Oh yeah? Which one?” I asked.
“The new Red Dawn.”
“Ugh.” I said. “Why would you want to see tha […]
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Jason Gray wrote a new post, Bookends: Video Diaries of “Christmas Is Coming” and “Children Again” 9 years, 7 months ago
There are two songs on “Christmas Stories” that are meant to give context and a theme for the rest of the record. I wanted to take kind of a bird’s eye view of Christmas here and now before zooming in on the chara […]
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Jason Gray wrote a new post, A Good Scare: the Redemptive Ghost Stories of Russell Kirk 9 years, 8 months ago
Since we’re fast approaching Halloween, I couldn’t resist an opportunity to write about one of my favorite books of the last few years: Russell Kirk’s Ancestral Shadows: An Anthology of Ghostly Tales.
I’m not typ […]
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Jason Gray wrote a new post, The Story Behind "Forgiveness Is a Miracle" 9 years, 8 months ago
As I approached writing songs for each of the characters in the Christmas story, I felt particularly protective of Joseph, who I think sometimes doesn’t get the attention he’s due. At the very least I know that I […]
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Jason Gray wrote a new post, Album Release — Christmas Stories: Repeat the Sounding Joy 9 years, 8 months ago
Christmas greetings from the Gray household! I know that normally it’s a little early to be thinking about Christmas, and I’m typically a take-one-holiday-at-a-time kind of guy—we haven’t even had Hallo […]
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Jason Gray wrote a new post, Stories Behind The Songs Of Joseph & Mary 9 years, 9 months ago
Here’s a look at the way we approached the stories of Joseph and Mary for my Christmas record:
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Jason Gray wrote a new post, The Story Behind The Making of Christmas Stories: Repeat The Sounding Joy 9 years, 9 months ago
Here’s a video we made about the story behind the making of Christmas Stories: Repeat The Sounding Joy.”
I hope to post soon about the process of writing for it and my awesome experience working with the este […] -
Jason Gray wrote a new post, The Story We Tell Ourselves Part 2: The Monster In The Mirror 9 years, 9 months ago
Click here to read “The Story We Tell Ourselves Part 1.”
In a conversation with a pastor friend of mine who is also a screenwriter, we talked about human nature, hypocrisy, and what makes for a good villain.
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Jason Gray wrote a new post, The Story We Tell Ourselves (Part 1) 9 years, 10 months ago
A part of what draws us to this peculiar treasure of a community called the Rabbit Room is a shared love of stories and storytelling. We are a bookish and thoughtful tribe who believe a book is more than something […]
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Jason Gray wrote a new post, Easier (A Sneak Peek Of A New Song From My Christmas Record) 9 years, 11 months ago
In exactly five months, Christmas will be here, and so I thought today was the perfect excuse to give you a sneak peek of one of the songs from my upcoming Christmas record.
The idea driving the project was to […]
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Jason Gray wrote a new post, Dreaming of A Gray Christmas 10 years ago
After taking a hiatus from blogging in order to focus on writing and spending time with my family, I’m dipping my toe back in the waters to give you an update on what’s brewing in our world.
In November of 2 […]
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Jason Gray wrote a new post, Leonard The Lonely Astronaut Blasts Off 10 years, 2 months ago
From the beginning of time the night sky has fueled our dreams of traversing the stars, pioneering the final frontier. Deep calls unto deep as we lie on our backs looking into the vast ocean of space above us and […]
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