One of the smartest, wittiest, and most thought-provoking songwriters of her generation, Sam Phillips is an artist who takes compact lessons about love, faith, and morality and wraps them in a delicious candy coating of superb pop melodies and subtle but passionate vocals. In a career that began with well-crafted but rote contemporary Christian pop-rock (1984's Dancing with Danger, credited to Leslie Phillips) and moved through intelligent singer/songwriter material (1987's The Turning) before evolving into beautifully executed Beatles-influenced pop (1994's Martinis & Bikinis...