About This Site
This is an online archive of the Bible Studies that were written to accompany the songs on the album
Haunts of Violence (R.E.X. 1992) by the band Sacrament. There were ten songs on the record, and each song had a theological theme and specific theological points it was striving to express. Each Bible Study walks the reader through those theological points, with Scripture references, in a way the writer hoped would be illuminating and helpful for a spiritual wanderer looking for clarity and answers to specific questions about life. |
About The ProjectBack in 1991, Sacrament hired a new singer whose job was to write lyrics and belt them out for the band. At the time, the band had music for most of the album written and song titles with no lyrics; just a vague theme or a cool phrase that might make a nifty song title. As he was moved to do at the time, vocalist Robert Wolfe also wrote a Bible study to accompany each song in order to flesh out the meaning and theological points touched on in each lyrical missive. The title song had its study included in the original printings by R.E.X. Records in both the cassettes and those new-fangled CDs. The rest were to be mail-ordered by interested fans. Each study was typed up on a manual typewriter, then literally cut-and-pasted on blank sheets of typewriter paper to be photocopied and stapled together by hand. Any artwork was hand drawn by Wolfe (we didn't have any home computers or Paint programs at the time--we were still thinking about which songs belonged on each side of the cassette tapes at this point!). They were also distributed at live shows. This website is an online archive of the original project. The original Bible study mock-up masters (now decades old) have been electronically copied, given minor cosmetic touch-ups, and are presented here for anyone interested in them. Oh, and there is no way the P.O. Box listed on these is still active, so don't send any correspondence or money there. (I'm sure it would just be returned to sender, but then, I don't really know anything about the Post Office, so maybe it won't . . .) |