Keep selling truth in candy bars…

Andrew Osenga has an excel­lent post today that basi­cally sums up every­thing I’ve been try­ing to say about the uneasy link between faith and com­merce, and says it far more elo­quently than I could.

This even reaches into the micro­cos­mos of local, inde­pen­dent Chris­t­ian music. I remem­ber try­ing to sell my first CD Young Man’s Fancy at a Chris­t­ian book­store in town. They did accept it. How­ever, after a few weeks, I called the store to see if there were any sales, and was told that it wasn’t overt enough. Which, in its own way, led to the writ­ing of Prodi­gal Songs as a way to state things more clearly. Since then, I find it inter­est­ing that the fur­ther I progress in my faith walk, the less I feel the need to prove through my songs that I’m “Chris­t­ian” enough…

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