Isn’t the Light OK?

I’ve decided to begin a new weekly fea­ture fea­ture to be updated as often as I feel like it, hence­forth known as “The TPS Report” (a ref­er­ence to the mean­ing­less pieces of cor­po­rate detri­tus fea­tured in the movie Office Space) . The TPS report is ded­i­cated to sto­ries of demean­ing job stu­pid­ity from my own […]

I often get tired of hear­ing peo­ple bash­ing CCM for being shal­low and money-grubbing, inef­fec­tive in its own self-stated pur­pose of “reach­ing the lost.” CCM was a big part of my spir­i­tual for­ma­tion as a “baby Chris­t­ian,” and a lot of its influ­ence still comes out in the music I write today, so you can prob­a­bly under­stand a lit­tle of my defen­sive­ness. Yes, there are prob­lems with it (as with any inter­sec­tion of faith, art, and busi­ness), but it just feels counter-productive to con­stantly whine about how bad it all is, when it’s seem­ingly min­is­ter­ing to lots of people.

Then I read some­thing like this that makes me want to join in the cho­rus of dissent.

Where to begin?

Image by kos­tia via Flickr

Edit (as of 5/8/06): For those of you who don’t feel like schlep­ping your way through hun­dreds of com­ments: yes, I know the knife show is back and on the air on your local PAX (or what­ever they’re call­ing them­selves now) affil­i­ate. This post was writ­ten over 2 years ago, when […]

Thanks to Geof and a few oth­ers link­ing to this site, I’m now the #2 Google result (edit: and the #4 for an old web­site) for my own (appar­ently very common) name.

Some­how, in attempt­ing to cre­ate a new cat­e­gory for my “Plight of the Indie Musi­cian” posts, I deleted this one. So, I copied it over from the old MT site and…uh…there it is. Again.
w00t, or something.