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Linoleum Knife

549.5: The Jesus Music, with Semler ("Preacher's Kid")

Linoleum Knife

Alonso Duralde

Gay, Lgbt, Reviews, Film, Entertainment, Movies, Tv & Film, Criticism, Movie

4.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Dave and Alonso recorded an add-on to this week's episode, going deep on the new documentary The Jesus Music with special guest Grace Baldridge who, recording under the name Semler, scored a #1 hit on the iTunes CCM chart with her album Preacher's Kid, a first for an openly LGBTQ+ recording artist. We have a lot to say about what this film does and doesn't talk about, and how they do and don't dig into what's really happening in the world of Contemporary Christian Music.

Find Semler's songs wherever you buy music, and check out Grace's documentary series "State of Grace" on YouTube.

Join our club, won't you?

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0:33.9

A podcast of the cinema

0:36.2

Wait, we're backwards.

0:39.2

What's happening?

0:39.8

Why are we backwards?

0:41.0

Everything is in crazy backward land.

0:42.7

So this is a special adjunct episode.

0:44.9

We have a, our regular episode is going to drop this week.

0:46.9

We'll review all the other new releases, Many Saints of Newark Catan, all that stuff.

0:51.4

But we wanted to have a special lengthy conversation about the Jesus music,

0:57.3

a documentary that opened on Friday, about contemporary Christian movie, sorry, contemporary

1:02.6

Christian music, its roots and its current practitioners, and it's somewhat, it's checkered history,

1:09.2

which is not super checkered in the movie, but we'll get

1:11.4

into that. Dave has a ton to say about this film, which is why I assigned him to review it for

1:16.6

the rap. He should absolutely go to the rap and read his review. I think he did a really great job

1:21.3

of sort of talking about what the movie does right and what it leaves out. But we wanted to have a

1:25.9

longer conversation with an expert on the inside.

1:29.6

So we're so thrilled to have with us, our dear friend Grace, who under the name Semler,

1:35.0

made history this year by scoring a number one song on the CCM charts as a beautifully out lesbian performer.

1:45.5

Grace, aka Semler, welcome to Linoleem Knife.

1:49.1

Why don't you say Grace's last name, too?

1:51.7

Oh, sure.

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