Our sons were in chorus at a public high school and the choral instructor said she slipped in a lot of Christian music throughout the year in Latin. Our younger son starting at age 8 was in a publicly funded children’s choir. At the beginning of the year, the instructor called a parents meeting and said that all the music that year would be religious because they were going to be participating at the end of the year in a huge gathering of children’s choruses from all over the midwest in Newton KS, big Mennonite area. No one objected. The music and the event were glorious. Almost a generation later and the trend continues. Sad that our children are being denied their heritage.
Did this choral director think she was being oh so clever? So?...What lesson did this Christian choral director teach?
Answer: Christians are sneaky and too timid to proclaim the faith in plain and easily understood English.
It is time for Christian teachers to re-evaluate what they are **really** teaching the students by being a faculty member of a government school whose worldview is utterly godless.
Sad, indeed.
When I was in high school, the choir would enter the auditorium from the back, single file, singing “Come to the Manger”, and the concert would close with the Hanel’s Hallelujah Chorus (full orchestra & chorus with me on tuba), replete with a detailed explanation of why everyone in the hall should rise when it is performed.
Nice, but we shouldn't have to "slip in" Christian music. We shouldn't have to be "sneaky" and "clever."
I was watching an old episode of "Leave it to Beaver," where the Beave was in his grammar school's Christmas play. There it was, on a network television program, a depiction of public school kids playing shepherds and Mary and Joseph, etc., and singing songs about Jesus! It struck me that that would NEVER happen today, and I realize how much things have changed just in my lifetime. And we have all just taken it. We've all meekly accepted it.