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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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21 May 2001 - 10:40 pm
My friend Jon Polk sent me a rather long but interesting email about the Lifehouse/Christian rock issue we've been talking about here on negative273. I'll summarize his email and quote (cut-and-paste) the parts I found most useful to our discussion.
Basically, Jon thinks that the members of Lifehouse "may be Christians in a band, but not necessarily a Christian band." Further, Jon thinks that
a Christian band is one whose purpose is to spread God's word through music. Not to spread music, and randomly include Jesus' teaching. I also think that the fact that it is in question whether or not they are a Christian band kind of discounts that status. For me, if you are a Christian band, you WANT everyone to know it, because your entire purpose of music is to glorify God. I don't question that some of the lyrics may be spiritually oriented, which is way cool... I just wouldn't define them as a Christian band. Also as a technicality, they are not signed by a Christian recording label... which may or may not have any importance.
Finally, I should mention that just because Jon doesn't think they're a Christian band in any way means that he "disagree[s] with the way they do their music."
In other fun and exciting news, I bought some dress socks and a shirt for work this evening. The socks, which I bought at Wal-Mart, came with a sticker that said "TREATED TO HELP PREVENT FOOT ODOR." So now, should you happen to be around me, you can rest assured that my feet don't smell bad.
Posted by on 21 May 2001 at 10:40 PM
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