After interrogating their beliefs, some onetime CCM artists are revisiting faith, trying on elements they’d previously discarded and writing music for listeners who might be more spiritual than religious.
When the CCLI Top 100 chart first appeared in 1988, most of the songs had one writer. Today, the average hit worship song has at least two writers — who often have ties to the so-called Big Four megachurches.
‘How Great Is Our God’ has long been one of the most popular worship songs in Christian churches. Since 2020, it’s also become a theme song for Christian Nationalist protesters.
In "God Gave Rock and Roll to You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music," Leah Payne traces the history and trajectory of CCM and how it has shaped evangelicals.
This issue of A Public Witness cues up the soundtrack of American evangelical Christianity as covered in Leah Payne’s “God Gave Rock and Roll to You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music.”
Keith and Kristyn Getty's hymn conference brings Christians together to sing tunes from historic hymnals, Celtic traditions, and new creations — and to share a common love and culture of sacred music.
The rocker who became a barber said soccer is a bit like life — sometimes sad, other times glorious.
A new study found that the most popular worship songs come from a handful of megachurches with a knack for writing pop songs about what God will do for you.
In this issue of A Public Witness, we dust off our old Steven Curtis Chapman cassette tapes to consider the different testimony he offers about faith and even Jan. 6 in light of “The Great Adventure” serving as an anthem for Doug Mastriano’s campaign. Then
In this edition of A Public Witness, we go deeper than our feet could ever wander into the scandal-plagued events surrounding Hillsong. Then we stand with our arms high and hearts abandoned to consider the role worship plays in Christian formation.