Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: st0o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Steven Timm) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Amy Grant Message-ID: Date: 5 May 91 02:20:06 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 19 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Discussion on this topic is raging in rec.music.christian on a ongoing basis. Personally I do not feel that Amy Grant is "walking the fine line", rather she has stepped boldly across it. She has wanted to be accepted in the main stream for a long time, and looks like she has made it this time, at least with one song. (Other songs of hers have been on the chart but never #1.) By so doing Amy moves into the same class as U2, groups who are Christian making not explicitly Christian music. The same phenomena has been going on for hundreds of years. We must ask, is there anything wrong with a Christian making good music without explicitly being religious? The danger is twofold, one that Amy will lose sight of where she came from (if she hasn't already), and second that seeing a known Christian artist in a secular medium will encourage people to sample other not-so-wholesome offerings in that vein. Amy Grant seems to think it's a risk worth taking, time will tell if it was. Steve Timm