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Christian music

Can Stryper be heavy metal if they are Christian?

September 8, 2020 by Randal

Following the release of Stryper’s new album “Even the Devil Believes,” popular heavy metal website blabbermouth.net posted a review which praises the musicianship and musicality, but gives the album a poor review because of uplifting Christian lyrics that allegedly contradict the spirit of rock and roll. In this video, I offer my response.

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Christian music, Christianity, heavy metal, Stryper

Good Christian song. Bad theology

September 11, 2017 by Randal

When I was growing up my parents vacillated between encouraging me to listen to God-honoring sanctified music and allowing me to listen to secular music. As for me, I often found myself waffling between the two, resolving one minute to seek spiritual purity and giving in the next minute to the lure of Casey Kasem’s […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Christian music, ethics, Margaret Becker, theology

On the Awkward Romanticism and Individualism of Popular Christian Music

August 5, 2015 by Randal

Some years ago I made a disparaging comment about Precious Moments figurines in a theology class. Immediately a hand shot up accompanied by a hurt expression and the comment, “But I love Precious Moments figurines!” That isn’t the first time my cynical and iconoclastic streak stepped on somebody’s toes, and I suspect it won’t be the last. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: CCM, Christian music, worship

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