contemporary Christian music
Kirk Franklin, Lecrae, Blind Boys of Alabama add new Grammy wins
By Aleja Hertzler-McCain — February 5, 2024
(RNS) — Gospel singer Kirk Franklin won his 20th Grammy award for his performance and songwriting on 'All Things' in the best gospel performance/song category.
Flamy Grant: A drag queen’s journey from church kid to chart-topping Christian artist
By Kathryn Post — August 16, 2023
(RNS) — For Matthew Lovegood, aka ‘Flamy Grant,’ releasing music in the Christian genre is about visibility for queer kids growing up in the church.
Steven Curtis Chapman first contemporary Christian artist to earn 50th No. 1 song
By Adelle M. Banks — February 28, 2023
(RNS) — Chapman’s ‘Don’t Lose Heart’ was released in 2022 as a part of ‘Still,’ his latest album, and addressed the loss and grief his family has experienced.
Rock music has had sympathy for God as well as the devil – Kennedy Center honoree Amy Grant is just one big star who’s walked the line between ‘Christian’ and ‘secular’ music
By David W. Stowe — December 7, 2022
(The Conversation) — The genre of contemporary Christian music has been around for decades, but the line between CCM and secular pop music has always been blurry.
Amy Grant, ‘queen of Christian pop,’ feted at Kennedy Center Honors
By Adelle M. Banks — December 5, 2022
(RNS) — ‘There was only one person who could really fulfill that requirement, and that was Amy,’ Kennedy Center's board chair, in an interview, said of ‘long overdue’ recognition.
CeCe Winans: ‘private ministry is the thing that fuels your public worship’
By Adelle M. Banks — November 17, 2022
(RNS) — Winans seeks to be a bridge-builder across generations, encouraging older folks to share their faith and life lessons with younger people.
Amy Grant out of hospital, postponing August tour dates
By Adelle M. Banks — July 29, 2022
(RNS) — 'Due to the doctor’s orders she has had to postpone her upcoming August concerts,' said a spokeswoman for the contemporary Christian musician.
Amy Grant hospitalized ‘for observation and treatment’ after bike accident
By Adelle M. Banks — July 28, 2022
(RNS) — The accident, less than a week after Grant was named one of this year’s five Kennedy Center Honors recipients, occurred on Wednesday.
Amy Grant named Kennedy Center honoree in first for contemporary Christian music
By Adelle M. Banks — July 21, 2022
(RNS) — ‘Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine ever receiving this prestigious Kennedy Center Honors,’ Grant said in a statement.
Trey Pearson, former CCM artist, celebrates LGBTQ freedom in new album
By Kathryn Post — July 6, 2022
(RNS) — This is the former Christian rocker’s second album since coming out as gay in 2016.
Oh Baby, Baby: Amy Grant’s biggest hit turns 30
By Bob Smietana — July 22, 2021
(RNS) — Amy Grant’s ‘Heart in Motion’ sold more than 5 million copies and made her a household name. Thirty years later, the record has been rereleased.
LGBTQ singer-songwriter ‘GameStops’ Christian music with No. 1 Christian album on iTunes
By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 10, 2021
(RNS) — ‘Preacher’s Kid’ carries a parental advisory for explicit lyrics and at turns lacerates youth group lock-ins and short-term mission trips — staples of an evangelical Christian upbringing — while professing a complicated faith.
Kentucky church to investigate Chris Rice, Christian musician, after abuse allegation
By Bob Smietana — October 15, 2020
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) — A former student at a Kentucky church has alleged that Rice sexually abused him after meeting him at a church retreat.
‘Hymn for the 81%’: A conversation with Daniel Deitrich
By Shane Claiborne — January 21, 2020
(RNS) — A lot of contemporary worship music doesn’t offer the best theology, but 'Hymn for the 81%,' by a South Bend, Indiana, worship leader, has gone viral with a cocktail of prophetic fire and Christ-like grace.
Amy Grant was the soundtrack to our home-schooled teenage lives
By Tyler Huckabee — December 19, 2019
(RNS) — In my house, growing up, Amy Grant wasn’t a Christmas queen. She was just a queen.
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