Andy Borgmann's Blog

I have come to realize something over the past year. Most of my work is spent producing a faith-based, talk radio show. And it is this production that I have come to realize that secular music is more Godly than Christian music.

Before I begin, I should apologize to the great Bryan Taylor as I have to admit, 4 years later, that you my friend, are right. Bryan and I had a discussion at the start of my sophomore year about this, to which I vehemently defended Christian music as the only God-honoring music around. To that, I say I am wrong and I am sorry. But I digress.

Here's what I have come to realize. God is a God of real life. Pick any passage you want out of the Bible (not Psalms) and you will see that God is a God that reveals his glory through real life human situations. Sometimes these stories are triumphant (i.e. Joseph). Sometimes they are tragic (i.e. the Rape of Tamar). But they are always real.

Now you are saying to yourself what does this have to do with music. And here’s my point: Christian music doesn’t sing about anything real. Have you heard a song out of the Christian music industry about divorce? How about true pain? How about romance? Or intimacy? Now their are exceptions of course. Jeremy Camp, Casting Crowns, and Justin McRoberts are phenomenal at writing music that is about the struggle we call life. However, they are the exception in that industry, not the rule.

On our radio show, we talk about a lot about God. But it doesn't sound like everything else you hear out their from Dobson or Robertson or Buchanan because what we talk about is where real life and faith come together. When I go to produce music for the rejoins, I am disappointed to find that 90% of the time I turn to secular music, as it is a better fit for real life. And since God is a God of real life, than I have to say His music should reflect that.