{"id":466,"date":"2008-07-02T08:16:31","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T12:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/?p=466"},"modified":"2010-01-05T22:26:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T03:26:55","slug":"guest-blogger-joel-edwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/guest-blogger-joel-edwards","title":{"rendered":"Ten \u201cSecular\u201d Albums Every Christian Needs To Hear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ten \u201cSecular\u201d Albums Every Christian Needs To Hear (In No Particular Order)<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. \u201cFuneral\u201d by Arcade Fire
    \n(How can an album so bogged down with death be so life-affirming?)<\/li>\n
  2. \u201cTime Out Of Mind\u201d by Bob Dylan
    \n(One poet\u2019s conversations with God about mortality and death)<\/li>\n
  3. \u201cThe Joshua Tree\u201d by U2
    \n(An American spiritual and musical masterpiece by an Irish band)<\/li>\n
  4. \u201cSeven Swans\u201d by Sufjan Stevens
    \n(A quiet collection of beautiful songs of spiritual reflection)<\/li>\n
  5. \u201cYankee Hotel Foxtrot\u201d by Wilco
    \n(A complete story of a man who breaks a heart, regrets it, and can only
    \nlong for what he lost \u2013 something tells me it\u2019s about more than just a girl)<\/li>\n
  6. \u201cKid A\u201d by Radiohead
    \n(A dark and hopeless view of an earth without God, eventually ending up in heaven, strangely enough)<\/li>\n
  7. \u201cPop\u201d by U2
    \n(A misunderstood collection of songs reminiscent of the psalms of David\u2026 the dark and terrifying psalms, to be exact)<\/li>\n
  8. \u201cAbattoir Blues\/The Lyre of Orpheus\u201d by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
    \n(A double-album of harsh and sometimes troubling spirituality)<\/li>\n
  9. \u201cCivilians\u201d by Joe Henry
    \n(Beautiful prayers and political songs aplenty)<\/li>\n
  10. \u201cLove & Theft\u201d by Bob Dylan
    \n(Time Out Of Mind Part 2, just, y\u2019know\u2026 more upbeat)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Joel Edwards is the 15 year old son of Paul Edwards and entering the Tenth Grade this fall. You can email him at joel@godandculture.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Ten \u201cSecular\u201d Albums Every Christian Needs To Hear (In No Particular Order) \u201cFuneral\u201d by Arcade Fire (How can an album so bogged down with death be so life-affirming?) \u201cTime Out Of Mind\u201d by Bob Dylan (One poet\u2019s conversations with God … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[329,27,29,348,475,486,507,519],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arcade-fire","tag-bob-dylan","tag-bono","tag-christian-music","tag-secular-music","tag-sufjan-stevens","tag-u2","tag-wilco"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}