{"id":75,"date":"2005-05-05T01:34:07","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T07:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=75"},"modified":"2005-05-05T01:34:07","modified_gmt":"2005-05-05T07:34:07","slug":"all-thumbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/all-thumbs\/","title":{"rendered":"All Thumbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

With postings like this: “All Thumbs,”<\/a> who needs my comments or thoughts.
\nI’ve been in a number of conversations lately that have discussed the rules\/value and who’s who of Christian music.
\nWhat makes music Christian. If you compare a love song by Bryan Adams to “In the Secret” by Sonicflood, aren’t they basically the same song? But we know one as a secular love song to a girlfriend or a wife and the other as a cry to God, simply because of where we heard it. Had we heard “In the Secret” on a secular radio station, we would likely consider it a secular song.
\nThink about the song, “Every Breath you Take” by the Police. People have considered it a love song for years.
\nPersonally I think its a stalker song.
\n

Every breath you take
\nEvery move you make
\nEvery bond you break
\nEvery step you take
\nI’ll be watching you<\/p>\n

Every single day
\nEvery word you say
\nEvery game you play
\nEvery night you stay
\nI’ll be watching you<\/p>\n

O can’t you see
\nYou belong to me
\nHow my poor heart aches with every step you take<\/I><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Depending on how you view it, I suppose it could be a romantic love song, or a song about a stalker singing to his prey.
\nIn reality, Sting wrote the song about an oppressive government that watched and censored everything it’s citizens did.
\nSo if music can be viewed in numerous ways, what about design in general?
\nWhat makes a design Christian or not?
\nWhen I send a flyer or postcard to my singles group, what determines if the design is Christian or not?
\nI remember last year after the Janet Jackson Superbowl fiasco I designed a flyer that had a picture of a sleeveless girl on it.
\nMy church staff wasn’t super happy with the idea because of the previous week’s fiasco. But was it because the design was un-Christian or was it because it suggested things that might not be Christ-like.
\nIsn’t the human body a thing of beauty, created by the All Mighty Creator?
\nWhen Michelangelo sculpted his statue of David was his thought, “I want to make this a Christian sculpture, so I’ll sculpt a figure from the Old Testament” or did he think, “I want to make this as un-Christian as possible, so I’ll scuplt David in the nude?”
\nDoes it matter?
\nIs there really a difference between a Christian design and a non-Christian design?
\nWhen I look at the marketing and design work that “secular” companies put out and then I look at the flyers I get from my church or other churches, I see a definate difference in the design quality but what about the elements?
\nShould we be concerned about the design elements itself or simply the message it conveys?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With postings like this: “All Thumbs,” who needs my comments or thoughts. I’ve been in a number of conversations lately that have discussed the rules\/value and who’s who of Christian music. What makes music Christian. If you compare a love song by Bryan Adams to “In the Secret” by Sonicflood, aren’t they basically the same … Continue reading All Thumbs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}