Part-sermon, part-rock gig, a new breed of church service is spreading God’s word – and boosting record sales. The cool kids walking into the venue look like they’ve stepped off the streets of ...

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 ...

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 ...

A bombshell new documentary is pulling back the curtain on the squeaky-clean image of the contemporary Christian music world — and the stories coming out of it are anything but wholesome. “Safe for ...

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 ...

The contemporary Christian music star's first solo entry on the chart also reaches No. 1 on Hot Christian Songs. By Jessica Nicholson Three years after initially earning a top 20 pop hit on the ...

(RNS) — The contemporary Christian music industry survived scandals, pushback from televangelists and the wholesale disruption of the record industry over the past 50 years and kept rolling along.

(RNS) — Contemporary Christian musician Amy Grant has been named one of the Kennedy Center’s five honorees for 2022. “Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine ever receiving this prestigious Kennedy ...

Salem Media Group sells its remaining contemporary Christian music radio stations to the Educational Media Foundation for $80 million. Salem Media Group has sold its seven remaining contemporary ...

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 ...

“The Jesus Music,” a film about the Christian music scene that earned more than half a million dollars over its opening weekend, is about as friendly and far removed from being an expose as a ...