Letters
April 1, 1995
It's Not Too Sweet
I thoroughly liked the rant and ramble of your new magazine, "a forum for orthodox engagement." I'd like to engage "Tune In" writer W. Bradford Wilcox in a healthy defense of "credible Christian contemporary" music. The "chant" is enriching and liturgically awesome. But please, Mr. Wilcox, entertain some other music. Listen to Mark Heard, Charlie Peacock, Julie Miller, T-Bone Burnett, Victoria Williams, Adam Again, Michael Card, Pierce Pettis, Bruce Cockburn, Margaret Becker, Daniel Amos, Michael Been, Vigilantes of Love, and the Choir. Listen. Please listen. No "sickly sweet," "libidinal" voices here. These postmodern, "contemporary Christian" artists paint life in real, vivid hues from our Creator's colorful palette, just as orthodox, just as solemn, just as true. These musicians sing of a world rich in depth and intensity and interaction, trafficked in pain and in glory. I like the cloistered monks, but don't "diss" all Christian musicians in one broad brush stroke. Offner Missteps
What a wonderful read you have produced! Regeneration Quarterly fills a gaping void on the current scene. In the spirit of friendly engagement, I thought Kevin Offner, in his "American Evangelicalism: Adrift With Amnesia" was largely accurate, though he clearly misstepped at one point. In discussing sola scriptura he noted that for evangelicals, "Scripture remains our sole, objective rule of faith.... but correct interpretation of Scripture is largely a subjective matter. Here we need to draw consciously on Christian tradition for help." But such a postmodern camel's nose of subjectivism can't be limited just to the text of Scripture. If we allow subjectivism to trump Scripture, it will equally trump tradition. Early interpreters ...
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