(As published in Rejoice! ... )
Bruce Carroll
Walk On
(Word)
Bruce Carroll's latest offering of gentle, acoustic homilies makes it clear why fans of mainstream Christian music like him so much: In addition to coming on gentle and acoustic, he depicts painful, middle-class dilemmas as readily curable by Jesus. Those who find this too neat have a point--Carroll's songs often seem to reflect life as it should be instead of life as it is. But those who draw hope from a song like “Sometimes When We Love,” in which a pregnant and unwed teenage girl decides against an abortion, have a point too, namely, that only when people insist on life as it should be does life as it is get any better.
Bruce CarrollWalk On
(Word)
Bruce Carroll's latest offering of gentle, acoustic homilies makes it clear why fans of mainstream Christian music like him so much: In addition to coming on gentle and acoustic, he depicts painful, middle-class dilemmas as readily curable by Jesus. Those who find this too neat have a point--Carroll's songs often seem to reflect life as it should be instead of life as it is. But those who draw hope from a song like “Sometimes When We Love,” in which a pregnant and unwed teenage girl decides against an abortion, have a point too, namely, that only when people insist on life as it should be does life as it is get any better.
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