Christian punk

Genre of punk rock Christian punkStylistic origins Christian rock punk rock Jesus music Cultural originsEarly 1980s, United Kingdom and United StatesDerivative formsChristian alternative rockSubgenresChristian hardcoreOther topicsList of Christian punk bandsChristian metalChristian socialismChristian communismChristian anarchismReligious communismanarchism and religionpunk ideologystraight edgeliberation theologyChristian feminism Christian punk is a form of Christian music and a subgenre of punk rock which contain Christian lyrical content. Much disagreement persists about the boundaries of the subgenre, and the extent that their lyrics are explicitly Christian varies among bands. For example, the Crucified explicitly rejected the classification of "Christian punk" while staying within the Christian music industry. Given the nature of punk and some of its subgenres, such as hardcore punk, many bands have been rejected by the Christian and CCM industry. Christian punk has been deemed novel in that it "seeks authenticity in two differently organized and orientated cultures: secular punk on the one hand and Evangelical youth culture and CCM on the other". Some bands generally avoid s