"... a professor named Lee Camp, a very good friend, a Will Campbell/Garrison Keillor/Atticus Finch/Ken Heffner type. He's been doing an Opry-like thing called Tokens, good/rich/invigorating/soul-restoring. It's music and conversation and all manner of goodness. I attended an evening and it occurred to me toward the end that I'd been saved. 'Saved from what?' a friend asked. 'From the myth of critical detachment,' I replied. I could ramble on." - David Dark, author of Everyday Apocalypse, The Gospel According to America, and The Sacredness of Questioning Everything

"Humor plays a large part in the show’s sideways approach to theology and social issues. If he can get people to laugh, Camp says, they are more willing to listen. Even when the show takes on issues like justice, materialism, and the environment. 'We try to use the humor and music to sneak up on people, and get them to look at substantive issues,' said Camp. 'You get a lot further by approaching things at an angle. If you approach things head on, then people get entrenched in what they think they already know.' " – Religion News Service

“While TOKENS features the work of entertainers of the highest caliber, there is something much deeper than entertainment going on here . . . . TOKENS is one of today’s finest exemplars of exploration around the intersections of theology and the performing arts…” – Englewood Review of Books

“Lee Camp has it within him to organize a kind of Prairie Home Companion, but it's southern and it's theological and it's filled with…some incredible music and skits and…this fellow called ‘Brother Preacher’ who was perhaps the funniest imitator of odd preaching I've ever seen. It was knee-slappin’ fun.” – Scot McKnight, the Jesus Creed blog.

“…if A Prairie Home Companion ever moved South and got religion—or at least went to divinity school—it might look a lot like TOKENS. While Camp and his cast deal with theology, they are after something bigger—glimpses of God’s action in the world…tokens of grace…. Camp knows the power of a pregnant pause, and how to switch from a song about environmental degradation to a radio skit without missing a beat. And the cast never seems to take itself too seriously.” – Sojourners

“…a virtuoso ensemble known as the Most Outstanding Horeb Mountain Boys: Jeff Taylor, Chris Brown, Aubrey Haynie, Byron House and Pete Huttlinger.” – Peter Cooper, The Tennessean

“Tokens Show is smart, satirical, funny and instructive without being a pain in the butt. . . . Tokens Show (offers) a way to engage our faith and enter into conversation with folk who do not believe as we believe without fear and without shame. This is a very powerful and transformative experience.” - Roderick Dwayne Belin, pastor, Kairos Community AME Church

“To some, Christian entertainment is an oxymoron. To others it’s synonymous with bad entertainment, and some (sometimes the same people) see the idea as bad Christianity. Successful (lucrative) Christian entertainment is not the same as good, ethical, life-giving Christian entertainment. Too much Christian entertainment is neither Christian nor entertaining. And then there’s TOKENS. . . . a woven tapestry of music, comedy, commentary, and interview—all designed both to entertain and provoke Christian thinking. TOKENS…show(s) that Christian entertainment can be authentic, enjoyable, and provocative. This kind of entertainment is re-Creation in the true sense of the word.” – Examiner.com

Lee Camp discusses Tokens on OnTheHomestretch.com below.


"Tokens blends part of a tested formula with some unique elements ... Judging from the wildly enthusiastic audience reaction, I predict this "crazy idea" is gonna fly, folks." Read more at Wendy V's Nashville Blend.

"... in addition to a great band, the show featured taped interviews with authors such as Brian McLaren, plus skits that were–I know this is hard to believe–actually funny. The show was a delight." Read more at The Rabbit Room.

"As also last time, the music was spectacular ... For only a second show, "Tokens" has got it going on like a program that has been around for a while." Read more at Wendy V's Nashville Blend.

Buddy Greene's performance of "Rise from the Ruins" in our premiere episode was given the title Song of the Day. Read the blog at The Rabbit Room.

"Whatever the turn, Camp's instincts are theological. Tokens refers to glimpses of God's activity in the contemporary world. Embodied here is the idea that divine wonder and pathos and human solidarity come through in music and storytelling, not just doctrinal argument." Read more of The Tennessean article at Sojourners in the News.

" 'I had been thinking a lot about the overlap of music and theology, the way a lot of good music raises perennial theological questions, but in a more succinct way than we theologians often do,' said Camp with a chuckle." Read more from Lipscomb University Campus News.

"Tonight's show on The Politics of Jesus was planned long before McCain and Obama received their nominations, and focused on issues instead of candidates." Read more at Write About Now.

"Lee Camp continues to bring a great mix of brilliant thinker and multi-talented entertainer to his hosting duties and vision for Tokens." Read more at Wendy V's Nashville Blend.