The Faith Business
So quite a few of my previous poetry ventures have been faith based (poetic interpretations of the bible and worship poetry) and it is in my mind at the moment about making money from my faith. Growing up I was really into Christian music and contemporary worship music but over time, despite being Christian musician and worship leader, I began to feel cynical about what I perceived the Christian music industry to be. My family was poor but we weren’t poverty stricken thanks to my parents thriftiness, but I think it affected me. All the money I had was from working on my paper round and I spent a good chunk of it on music, some from big name high street stores but more likely from 2 nd hand record stores. This was before internet shopping and streaming was a thing. If there was a Christian album I wanted then it always smarted a bit because they would usually have to be bought from the Christian book shop and the price was usually 50 per cent more than a new album from HMV or Virgi
