Unboxing Christian Music: Colony House Blurs Industry Lines
By moving past the bounds of the Christian music genre, Colony House pours truth into people who might not hear it anywhere else.

By moving past the bounds of the Christian music genre, Colony House pours truth into people who might not hear it anywhere else.

Race’s conspicuous exclusion from mainstream Christian music (CCM) communicated something implicit and insidious.

When I hear Garrels sing so fervently, he lifts up timeworn images and reinvests them with passion. As far as that goes, it’s a noble endeavor. But, speaking for myself, I want to hear something more than passion—I want to hear personality. I want to hear some threads in the tapestry that come from the loom of his own experience and imagination.
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