Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site akgua.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!gatech!akgua!rjb From: rjb@akgua.UUCP (R.J. Brown [Bob]) Newsgroups: net.religion.christian Subject: Amy Grant and Christian/Secular Music Message-ID: <1624@akgua.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 12:16:30 EDT Article-I.D.: akgua.1624 Posted: Wed Aug 7 12:16:30 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Aug-85 21:54:57 EDT Organization: AT&T Technologies/Bell Labs, Atlanta Lines: 26 Now that Amy Grant's "Love Will Find a Way" has broken into the Top 30 in the US of A, I am sure that the "Christians and the Music they listen to and play" discussion will get cranked all over this country. This past weekend Amy and her band appeared at Six Flags over Georgia and she was heavily promoted by a secular Pop-rock FM station. A friend who works at a Christian FM station in the area told me that people are calling in with suggestions that they drop Amy from the playlist for ostensibly "sell out" reasons. He indicated that Amy is sensitive to the feelings of the mainline Christian community and, for instance, she passed on all interviews this weekend including NEWSWEEK. There is a sad litany of reasons that I guess we can thrash out here if there is interest, but I urge patience and tolerance for someone who is doing it a little different from the way you are. Please pray for people like Amy whether you feel she is right or wrong. Those of us who are involved in CCM don't need your condemnation - remember we're still your brothers and sisters. Bob Brown {...ihnp4!akgua!rjb}