{"id":1337,"date":"2008-04-25T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2008-04-25T12:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T12:07:00","slug":"orbiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=1337","title":{"rendered":"orbiting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Diane sent me a link<\/a> a few days ago to a post on a blog written by Daniel Radosh. He’s not a believer, but he’s written a book called Rapture Ready<\/a><\/i>, favorably reviewed by most of the biblically-grounded, thinking Evangelical establishment, in which he discusses his experiences with “Christian pop culture.” I haven’t read it yet, but it’s certainly on the to-read list.<\/p>\n

The link Diane sent<\/a> addresses “Christian Rock” and specifically the question “Does it suck?” Even though he’s a self-described liberal humanist, Radosh argues “no” and lists some very compelling songs by Christian bands to support his argument. In addition, he posts a video of a debate between himself and another cultural critic about the above question. If you know me at all, you know I have several ready-made tirades against the majority of the Christian music industry and the worldviews that fuel it, so I was naturally very interested in the outcome of the debate. It’s crude in places, and Radosh’s assessment of Christianity (what current Christians make it, versus what it really<\/i> is: propositional, historical, revealed truth) is off, but I was pleasantly surprised at how correctly he describes the mindset of a genuine, culturally-engaged (but not saturated) believer. It’s free from most of the usual cliches and stereotypes proffered by many humanists. Good listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Diane sent me a link a few days ago to a post on a blog written by Daniel Radosh. He’s not a believer, but he’s written a book called Rapture Ready, favorably reviewed by most of the biblically-grounded, thinking Evangelical establishment, in which he discusses his experiences with “Christian pop culture.” I haven’t read it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}