Just as contemporary Christian music has been critical in disseminating conservative Christian ideals, Nashville is a key exporter of contemporary Christian music. The story of contemporary Christian ...

This year, the Maverik Center hosted two of the largest names in contemporary Christian music: Forrest Frank and Brandon Lake ...

The birth of contemporary Christian rock and pop music in America can in part be traced to a vision received by a 17-year-old runaway from Costa Mesa named Lonnie Frisbee. After stripping naked and ...

Contemporary Christian pop music might be taking Psalm 100’s command to “make a joyful noise unto the Lord” a little too far. Jamie Grace’s “Beautiful Day” was one of the top 10 Christian songs of ...

In 1966, The Beach Boys released "God Only Knows." The song became a hit, and a classic. More than 50 years later, the duo For King and Country used that old title for a new song (with some help from ...

It seems there are more churches than people in Orange County – and with all those churches there are church-goers… and more importantly, church-music. Lovingly referred to as CCM (contemporary ...

While streams of new music — releases from the last 18 months — were down from last year, one genre is on the rise: Christian ...

Bart Millard remembers the first time he realized I Can Only Imagine was a hit. Nearly two years after his band, MercyMe, released the Christian song as a single in 2001, he got a call from a friend, ...

Christianity showed up in the mainstream in unexpected ways this year. Are we in a revival?Take a look at this year's Billboard charts. For the first time, multiple Christian musicians charted on the ...

Bethel Music, the contemporary Christian music group based in Redding, Calif., is known for its spontaneous worship style and countless online worship videos streaming all over the world. “I think God ...

Filmmakers Andrew and Jon Erwin weren’t sure what to do with themselves after the COVID-19 pandemic shut things down in 2020, but then, like a voice from above, inspiration struck. “Our producing ...

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