I'm really glad to have a musician feel the same way. I mean Gospel Music? Obviously its own qualification. Like, say, devotionals, or apologetics.
In thinking more about this, I have discovered that there are a couple of things I feel market themselves appropriately for their audience. Veggie Tales should be marketed exactly how it is--it's filling a very small niche, but it works with that niche, gears itself toward a very specific audience, yet manages to work inside that niche to do some really interesting (albeit goofy) things. Like set the stories of Joseph and Moses as Westerns. With vegetables.
I'm still trying to analyze why I think Veggie Tales is doing it right, and why I feel Christian fiction isn't. It could be because it implies that if you're Christian and writing fiction, you should be writing Christian fiction (which I've actually heard a lot more often in regards to music--how can you be a musician who is Christian without being a Christian musician?). I find all of that a bit silly, and I imagine that's where some of the irking comes from.
Re: Catching up
In thinking more about this, I have discovered that there are a couple of things I feel market themselves appropriately for their audience. Veggie Tales should be marketed exactly how it is--it's filling a very small niche, but it works with that niche, gears itself toward a very specific audience, yet manages to work inside that niche to do some really interesting (albeit goofy) things. Like set the stories of Joseph and Moses as Westerns. With vegetables.
I'm still trying to analyze why I think Veggie Tales is doing it right, and why I feel Christian fiction isn't. It could be because it implies that if you're Christian and writing fiction, you should be writing Christian fiction (which I've actually heard a lot more often in regards to music--how can you be a musician who is Christian without being a Christian musician?). I find all of that a bit silly, and I imagine that's where some of the irking comes from.