Crawdaddy! The Magazine of Rock

If you Google the words “rock magazine” the first result of that search is for This Rock magazine, which “has established itself as the definitive magazine of Catholic apologetics and evangelization.” For posterity, the next search result is Revolver: the World’s Loudest Rock Magazine!

I can’t help but imagine that these Catholic evangelists knew what they were doing when they called their magazine This Rock. Perhaps not, but it’s weird that it shows up first, right? When considering for a moment that rock music was something that Christian fundamentalists fiercely fought to extinguish in the past and how subversively Christian values have slipped into popular rock music, it makes me want to pay attention real close and draw the line to make the distinction between when it’s cool and when it’s not cool to bring up Jesus.

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