6.15.2005

Prophetic voice sometimes sings

Looks like the Anglican Journal in Canada for some reason just noticed Get Up Off Your Knees. Many common comments, the usual couple well-taken critiques, and this nice bit:
Ms. Whiteley rightly laments the two paths that have often happened with respect to popular music and Christianity. She regrets a mutual abhorrence of one group's fans towards the other. She also skewers the vacuous attempts to borrow religious trappings to give a "spiritual" effect to a secular work or the adding of pop music and general simplicity to "attract the young people" to the Christian religion. She says, "Neither of these responses does full justice to the integral and substantial relationship between religion and culture." This book, and its sermons regardless of quality, scope, or theology, does.

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