When my wife attended Wheaton College, one thing she didn't like was what she termed the "whiny-voiced worship leaders." Let me describe the phenomenon in a bit more detail, as I'm sure you've experienced it, too. She was talking about the man-boy who raises the pitch of his voice in order to communicate the depth of the emotion he is feeling. Trying to look "rugged" and doing his best 90's female angsty pop star impersonation—think Alanis Morissette singing "You Oughta Know"—this guy is perpetually trying to use emotional prosody and poor singing technique to convince us of how authentic his deep, deep feelings of passionate love for God are. His voice is tight and pinched giving the perpetual impression that he is on the edge of being overcome by emotion. Never mind that all he actually manages to convey is the sense that he forgot to use the restroom before he got on stage. He is "so humbled to be standing brokenly in front of us," and he "just wants to invite us to join him" in his whiny-voiced worship...
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Joseph and his wife, Heidi, have five children, Tate, Eliza Jane, Moses, Fiona and Annabel. He graduated from Vanderbilt University and Clearnote Pastors College. He is currently planting Christ Church in Cincinnati with several other families.
