For most any value of creative "X", "Christian X" is going to be populated by those retreating into the niche because they're emphatically not good enough at "X" to achieve mainstream success, to the point that chasing a built-in but significantly smaller audience looks attractive.
I think there are Christian artists who could make it in the mainstream, but who focus on Christian themes out of devotion/passion, in spite of the smaller audience.
I do have to give the actor who played the kid on 2.5 Men credit for walking away from acting and renouncing that role when he got back into religion.
From my reading of the NT, there's a lot of walking away from worldly things by those who chose to follow Yeshua, so I do respect it when those to talk the talk actually walk the biblical walk.
> so I do respect it when those to talk the talk actually walk the biblical walk.
Self sacrifice can be noble, though in my experience it can also become destructive. Biblical teachings--sometimes explicitly--proscribe things like putting unverifiable authorities above ones closest family and friends, poverty, never closely associating with non-believers, and faith without evidence.
