Is there such a thing as ‘Christian' music, writing, art, etc?
      

I try mightily to keep myself from having unexamined beliefs.  I turned one up, though, in the last month or so, no doubt because of the writing contest and online apologetics conference I was working on.  The writing contest, for example, is labeled as a Christian writing contest.  I began to think about how an endeavor like writing, or any endeavor at all, could justify being termed 'Christian' and realized I had never really thought about it much before, and had rather accepted the presumptions that had been handed down to me.  I hate it when I do that!  Even if the presumptions are right!

However, what I turned up when I began my examination may surprise the reader.  In Evangelical circles, the Christian sub-culture is a constant temptation and Christianese the prevailing language, which I myself attack in this post warning about Christianese and shibboleths.   There is a silly sense within Christendom that you can slap the label 'Christian' on front of something and you've sanctified it.  The truth usually is that it's merely been rendered more marketable within the Church.

The reader would be wrong if he thought that the presumption handed down to me was the one I just described, however.  
         

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