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  • Guilty Pleasure: Christian Rock, for a Nonbeliever

    Guilty Pleasure: Christian Rock, for a Nonbeliever

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    Sam Cook grew up in a fundamentalist Christian church outside Joplin, Missouri. “Speak in tongues, lay on hands, put holy water on people, a literalist view of the Bible,” he says. Part of that upbringing involved avoiding “secular” pop culture, instead watching Christian movies and listening to Christian rock. Then he moved away to Kansas…