Petra News

Shillong, Jan. 28: The West met the East as John Schlitt, the lead singer of Christian band Petra from the US and the Nagaland-based band Divine Connection rocked Shillong today, lifting the young and the old to spiritual ecstasy.

Deleted Scenes , a four-piece from the Washington D.C. area, comes to Denton Tuesday, January 31, as they continue a lengthy tour through the states.

PULPHEAD John Jeremiah Sullivan Farrar, Straus & Giroux $16 paperback, 384 pages There's a point in many of the essays in John Jeremiah Sullivan's book " Pulphead " in which the reason for his obsession with whatever it is he's writing about becomes clear.

Christian music has changed a lot since the days of church hymnal sing-a-longs with piano accompaniment to the tune of "Bringing in the Sheaves." Today, the music has evolved by incorporating a lot of the sounds heard on mainstream radio.

PETRA , the legendary Christian rock band whose name means "rock", is back and in concert, 7:30 pm Saturday, November 12th at the Majestic Theater in Dallas, TX.