WELCOME TO HIGHLAND HILLS

Likely you have heard it before.  The swelling guitar driving the chorus again and again and again and, well, again for good measure. The repetition in the lyrics is an echo of the repetitive nature of the underlying music.  Today, the majority of contemporary Christian music relies on the same three major chords, C, G, and D played over and over again.  There is of course a dash of A minor thrown in, but the major chords are dominant voices.  Together they create an upliftin

Since my first day at Mercer, I’ve learned a lot about bears (naturally). Most of this should have only been a refresher. You can’t grow up in Macon without taking a trip to the Museum of Arts and Sciences and seeing the giant polar bear, or taking a trip to Atlanta and seeing the panda bears that lived at Zoo Atlanta for twenty-five years. You can’t grow up in Georgia without learning that the only native bear in Georgia is the black bear, and if you were like me it was disa