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‘Hey Jesus, Do You Love Me the Same?’: Out Christian Rock Star Trey Pearson on Closeted Industry Figures, His Evolving Faith, and Brand New Video

By Chrissy Stroop

…viously unspoken? When I first started to realize that there were closeted CCM artists during my career, and also closeted worship leaders, youth pastors, and people I met in all areas of the evangelical church, it scared me as a result of my own internalized homophobia. As I was progressing in my faith, even before I could accept myself, I started to care more about the difficult circumstances they faced, having to choose between their careers an…

The Varieties of Religious Experience in Indie Rock

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…mammoth Christian Music industry. Apart from the presumed faithfulness of CCM artists (backsliding is bad for record sales) and general lack of piety among indie-rockers (yes, I’m generalizing), one key difference is that these new indie rockers see the divine as immanent. In CCM, God is sung about as being “up there,” and those listening will raise their arms skyward to indicate the distance. The new music sees a quasi-mystical immanence in the…

Without Bev Shea, No Billy Graham

By Douglas Harrison

…Tornquist and other mainstays of the Jesus movement, much less subsequent CCM stars such as DC Talk or Chris Tomlin or Casting Crowns. But what links Shea to the formation of CCM has less to do with his singing style and much more to do with the brand of celebrity he naturalized in evangelical Christianity. Whereas Graham’s fame was—and is and will always be—a product of his preaching, Shea brought an independently established reputation as a pro…

Leper Messiah: A Jesus Freak’s Search for the Meaning of Bowie—A Critical Novella

By Mark Dery

…ssive take on what would come to be known as Christian Contemporary Music (CCM). Someone spoke in tongues; someone else prayed for the gift of interpretation. A girl rocked as she sang, eyes closed, cheeks silvered by tears. I knew how she felt. Sometimes, as I tried to wrap my mind around God’s fathomless love for me—me, an insignificant speck among earth’s billions, yet He numbered the very hairs on my head—a wrenching feeling welled up inside:…

News Round-Up: State of the Christian Movie

By Gwynne Watkins

…dia campaign, specifically targeting people who listened to the Australian CCM group The Newsboys on Pandora. Here’s the video for the Newsboys’ 2011 song “God’s Not Dead,” which takes place on the day that scientists officially decide God does not exist. (Never mind that science can’t prove the non-existence of anything.) Are you familiar with this urban legend about a Christian student butting heads with an atheist professor? Then you basically…

Exvangelical TikTokkers Aren’t a Sign of the End Times, But Here’s What Evangelicals Need to Understand About ‘The Falling Away’

By Blake Chastain

…about the topic. Jeremiah also makes reference to Christian country music (CCM) artists “falling away,” which could apply to several musicians including John Steingard (who, like Bell, has a podcast on the topic), and Kevin Max of DC Talk (whose decision to publicly identify as #exvangelical on Twitter kicked off an entire news cycle in the Christian media). Each of these stories garnered wide attention because of their notoriety within evangelica…