Favorite religious song


Tons of choices; reggae, bluegrass, classical, country, hymns. 

Not so much jazz...though I do love Pete Fountain's " A Closer Walk With Thee"

My choice is sorta religious. "Mercy" Mary Gauthier.

jpwarren58

It’s not religious.

“It’s a rather joyous song,” Cohen said on the release of “Various Positions,” and, he argued often, a secular one. He wanted to push the words of praise back to Earth, “to indicate that Hallelujah can come out of things that have nothing to do with religion.” -  The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of ‘Hallelujah’ by Alan Light

 

Hallelujah-Leonard Cohen

How about Greg Brown’s “Jesus and Elvis”;

 

Jesus had some water, said “wine would be better yet”

Elvis picked up his guitar and made all the women wet.

I do not listen to religious songs on my home system.  If I want religious music, there are churches everywhere

It took me a couple of decades to realise they snuck it into there using like a dog whistle.

 

Others songs of their’s are more apparent, but not overly “in our face”:



 

Some great Christian artists like Josh Garrels and Jon Foreman. Check out Josh’s Jacaranda and Over Oceans recordings.  Jon Foreman’s Limbs & Branches.