23 Facts About Michael Card

Michael Card was born on April 11,1957 and is an American Christian singer-songwriter, musician, author, and radio host from Franklin, Tennessee.

Michael Card is best known for his contributions in contemporary Christian music, which combine folk-style melodies and instrumentation with an in-depth study of the Bible.

Michael Card has authored several books, including the Gold Medallion Book Award winner A Sacred Sorrow.

Michael Card is the son of a doctor and the grandson of a Baptist minister.

Michael Card received bachelor's and master's degrees in biblical studies from Western Kentucky University, and was awarded the university's Distinguished Alumni Award in 1997.

In 2005, Michael Card worked on a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Classical literature.

Since then, Michael Card has released thirty-two original albums and six compilation albums.

Many of Michael Card's albums are structured around a unifying theme.

Michael Card is particularly adept at relating difficult or obscure concepts from the Old Testament to more understandable themes from the New Testament.

Michael Card has distanced himself from the Christian music industry by criticizing the promotion of personalities over musical content and the shifting emphasis away from God to sell more albums.

In 2019, Michael Card released the album, To the Kindness of God, featuring seven new original songs, two hymn covers, and a new arrangement of one of Michael Card's earlier songs, "Song of Gomer", which first appeared on the album The Word: Recapturing the Imagination.

Michael Card is the author or co-author of twenty-two books.

Michael Card originally started writing as a way to share the knowledge he accumulated while researching his songs.

Michael Card found his studies were too in-depth to condense everything he had learned into one short piece.

Michael Card then branched out to other subjects not specifically based on his music, such as the Gospel of John, homeschooling, and Christian discipleship and mentoring.

In 2014, Michael Card completed the Biblical Imagination Series, a four-volume set which takes a deeper look at each of the gospels and the voice of the writers behind them.

Michael Card followed up on the Biblical Imagination Series next by releasing a new book on the subject of the Hebrew word, an idea which he first explored in his two books on lament.

In 1996, Michael Card caused some concern within his primarily evangelical fan-base by co-releasing an album as well as touring with musician John Michael Talbot.

Some fans and critics felt betrayed by the collaboration since Michael Card is known for lyrics that scrupulously adhere to Protestant theology whereas Talbot is a Roman Catholic.

On November 14,2004, Michael Card provided the music for a sermon by Ravi Zacharias at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Still, Michael Card said, he doesn't see Mormonism and evangelical Christianity as opposed to each other.

Since the statement was not a direct quote, some have surmised that Michael Card was misunderstood, which turned out to be accurate.

Michael Card said that he thought the tensions between the LDS Church and the Evangelicals was because the LDS Church was on one end of the "continuum" and Evangelicals on the other.