Christianity Today is running a short, entertaining essay on the history of Christian rock and roll, and it’s well worth reading. The author, Joel Heng Hartse, argues that Christian rock often wasn’t ...

Since 2004 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No one takes Christian rock music seriously, not even most Christians. It’s not a lack of ability among the musicians performing ...

Petra, Greek for “rock,” is widely considered one of the first Christian rock bands. Formed in 1972 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, ...

When rock and roll emerged in the 1950s, ministers denounced it from their pulpits and Sunday school teachers warned of the music's demonic origins. The big beat, said Billy Graham, was "ever working ...

A mysterious new name has been gaining traction across social media platforms, YouTube, and streaming platforms such as Spotify, in recent weeks: Noah Graves. With emotionally raw lyrics, polished ...

Christian America loves to play the persecution card, as if the nation’s most dominant religion, with nearly 400,000 churches in the country, is having a hard time being recognized as a driving force ...

In 1957, less than a year after the end of the Montgomery bus boycott, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., took a part-time job as an advice columnist. His employer was Ebony, and his ambit was ...

When rock first became popular, one of the most common ways to denounce it was to call it “the devil’s music.” Many parents and conservatives feared that the swiveling hips and sex appeal of artists ...

Jon Steingard, the lead singer of the Christian rock band Hawk Nelson, is speaking out after announcing he no longer believes in God. In a lengthy Instagram message posted Wednesday, Steingard thanks ...