Monthly Archives: January 2004

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?