{"id":542,"date":"2009-02-11T12:09:47","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T12:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/02\/what-is-christian-music-and-wh.html"},"modified":"2009-02-11T12:09:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T12:09:47","slug":"what-is-christian-music-and-wh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/02\/what-is-christian-music-and-wh.html","title":{"rendered":"What Is Christian Music and Why Do You Care?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WreckedForTheOrdinary.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/118\/import\/WreckedForTheOrdinary.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"102\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/span> I had a lovely opportunity recently to do a guest post at the arts and culture blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wreckedfortheordinary.com\/category.asp?category=Arts&amp;filename=what-is-the-definition-of-christian-music-and-why-do-you-care\" target=\"_blank\">Wrecked For The Ordinary. I decided to write on the topic, What is Christian music, and why do you care?<\/a><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a timely topic. The Grammys were just handed out on Sunday, and as regular readers know I&#8217;m always questioning <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2008\/12\/christian-music-artists-grammy.html\" target=\"_blank\">why Christian music is lumped in with Gospel music<\/a>.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not alone. Today, over on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com:80\/idolchatter\/2009\/02\/last-word-on-the-grammys-the-s.html\" target=\"_blank\">Idol Chatter blog, blogger Paul O&#8217;Donnell <\/a>asks the same question about this year&#8217;s Grammys. (Thanks to my reader JazzyPaul, who reminded me that it&#8217;s the labels who submit the artists for Grammy category nominations. &#8220;Certainly, if I was Mary Mary&#8217;s management,&#8221; he commented, &#8220;I&#8217;d be all about trying to put them up next to Beyonce.&#8221;)<br \/>\nI talk at length about this question in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wreckedfortheordinary.com\/category.asp?category=Arts&amp;filename=what-is-the-definition-of-christian-music-and-why-do-you-care\" target=\"_blank\">post at Wrecked For The Ordinary.<\/a> Check it out and let me know what you think.<br \/>\nBy the way, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/01\/indie-artist-mariah-secrest-sh.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mariah Secrest is the editor at Wrecked For The Ordinary, and she did a guest post<\/a> for this blog last week. Check out her post, and also get a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/02\/free-christian-music-download-11.html\" target=\"_blank\">free download of her song &#8220;Pulse&#8221; <\/a>from her EP, <em>Green Light<\/em>.<br \/>\n<em>Get the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gospel Soundcheck <\/a>headlines delivered daily to your email inbox. Just sign up for the RSS feed by going to the &#8220;Subscribe&#8221; box on the right hand side of this blog and entering your email address.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a lovely opportunity recently to do a guest post at the arts and culture blog, Wrecked For The Ordinary. I decided to write on the topic, What is Christian music, and why do you care? It&#8217;s a timely topic. 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