Isn’t the Light OK?

The next time I feel like rant­ing about the dan­gers of mix­ing art, faith, and com­merce together, I think I’ll just post a link to Andrew Osenga’s web­site. He’s expe­ri­enced a lot more of the weird and ugly side of mak­ing music as a Chris­t­ian than I prob­a­bly ever will, and talks about it much more elo­quently than I ever have.

Case in point: over the past few days, he’s writ­ten two excel­lent posts on some seem­ing hypocrisy on both the CCM and main­stream sides of the fence (Part 1, Part 2). “No man’s land” is his descrip­tion of where he is in the artis­tic land­scape. Read it.

Else­where, Bob Lef­setz decried the death of the album. Scott Andrew offered his own take on the sub­ject, with some good com­ments by his read­ers. Hav­ing writ­ten a cou­ple of songs that peo­ple have con­nected with (maybe these are my “sin­gles”?), I think Lef­setz has the right idea, espe­cially for new artists, but I sin­cerely hope the “ipod gen­er­a­tion” doesn’t rid the world of the desire to make full-length artis­tic statements.

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