US Catholic author praises Wiggles’ Jesus songs

Amy Welborn sings the Wiggles praises

My sons are huge Wiggles fans. Huge. Compared to most of the children’s programming out there, the Wiggles are a pretty sophisticated bunch. It’s not the typical feel-good nonsense that most children shows consist of. Rather, these guys can sing and sing well. No problems letting my children watch this!

So of course, it’s always encouraging to hear stuff like this follow up my basic instinct about these fellas:

She (Amy Welborn) wrote in her blog: ‘This year, what with the Wiggles being on the Disney channel for nigh on two years now, I thought they would surely have had their US content Disney-fied and Jesus wiped out, or at least grown some ears. But no! Caught a bit of this year’s Christmas special this morning, and within ten minutes, heard 2 Jesus songs.’

She referred to their performance of Silent Night, sung in English and Spanish by a small Mexican group, with the song accompanied by images from Catholic churches.

‘There were lots of shots of very traditional church interiors, Madonna and Child imagery, and one shot of a slew of nuns kneeling in pews.’

Supportive of the Vinnies, music done well, and folks who aren’t afraid to do Christmas songs. I love it.

. . . of course, one could comment rather sadly that we have to seek out people unafraid to do Christmas songs, but that’s another topic for another day.