Perhaps this has been going around church circles for a while, but Rod Dreher flags an instant classic — for those familiar with this style of worship, increasingly popular. It’s a send-up of that wonderfully inspirational, terribly treacly, wannabe-show-stopper, hope-to-be-hip, usually-falling-short style of modern church music known as the praise song.
I think it was Oscar Wilde who said something to the effect that there was more bad taste and true emotion in a cemetery than anywhere else. Except perhaps the American church.
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Stories I’ve Found, 2/8/2013 « homiliesandstraythoughts
[...] Praise Songs for Dummies is your guide to becoming a Christian rock star. Gosh, why didn’t I know about this when I was working on my doctorate in music? (For those of you who don’t know me, I really DO have a doctorate in music.) [...]
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