Posted on 01/10/2006 8:27:27 AM PST by nckerr
Michelle Boorstein | The Washington Post Posted January 7, 2006 Looking at row after row of Christian-music CDs in a suburban Virginia Wal-Mart, Clint Clifton glimpses the seeds of something grand -- a golden period for Christian artists that could rival 12th-century France or 15th-century England. The Christian selections fill about one-eighth of the mega-store's music department. Having spent three years promoting and training young Christian musicians, Clifton smiles; he is living in a boom time. But Clifton, 26, sees other things on the wire shelves, too. He picks up a CD by the teenage band Jump 5 and tsks. The group doesn't write most of its songs, and Clifton suspects that it began as a moneymaking "concept" in a music company's marketing department, not as a divinely inspired prayer, as Christian music should. He flips over a top-selling CD and marvels at the name of the label: Time-Life. "Seeing Time-Life on a Christian CD is still pretty weird," says Clifton, who lives in Stafford, Va., and is pastor at Pillar Church in Dumfries, Va. "It's a good thing as a whole, but I don't necessarily think being bigger is always a good thing. It's a fine line." For musicians of what's broadly called "contemporary Christian" --
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God Bless you.
Thank you.
Guess it depends on what you are looking for in music. I'd much rather listen to uplifting lyrics than listen to lyrics about sex, drugs and violence.
But that's just me.
I see your point. For sacred music I turn to Bach, Handel, and other classical giants.
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