There is current news of the prospects of explicitly “Christian” media. There is a long-standing dynamic in the media marketplace focused on the boundary between secular and “Christian” titles and products.
Many Christian artists have aspired to “cross over” between these domains, and there has been an understandably evangelistic aspiration to do so. The idea, seemingly, is to pull off a kind of legerdemain where an unsuspecting secular or general audience would stumble onto a Christian message without intending to do so.
A secondary impulse is presumably to provide “safe” programming for Christians at large in the common culture.
Whichever is the objective, this has existed within a larger, long-standing, claim that the secular media are somehow inimical to the Christian message. There is lots of literature on this, from the scholarly, to the popular. (For a good account in the scholarly literature, see Michael Lindsay’s ambitious book, which contains…
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