In the 60-year history of the British pop charts there have only ever been three hit songs whose lyrics have largely been taken directly from the Bible. In 1966 The Byrds hit with a song written by ...

Back in the '70s British Christian rock was a fairly sedate thing. Most musicians were content to keep the approach folky and the volume down so as not to frighten the old ladies. And then a band from ...

The Swanee Quintet are gospel music survivors - an old style vocal group who over the decades have travelled the Gospel Highway playing everything from humble storefront churches to Carnegie Hall and ...

For those with ears to hear, it's now being acknowledged in church circles that one of the most anointed and powerful worship anthems of recent times is the glorious live version of "I Speak Jesus" on ...

THE VIRAL controversy between two of America's biggest Christian music artists Forrest Frank and Cory Asbury has been resolved. Commented Premier Christianity magazine, "When a parody crossed a line ...

With the dramatic fall in credibility and commerciality of Australia's Hillsong mega church and its youth culture offspring Hillsong United, worship artist Benjamin William Hastings has emerged from ...

THE LONG time frontman of mainstream hard rockers Papa Roach, Jacoby Shaddix has been giving his Christian testimony recently at several large US events. Shaddix, who battled with alcohol and drug ...

Tony Cummings unpacks the fascinating tale of a groundbreaking group often overlooked by gospel music historians, THE HEAVENLY GOSPEL SINGERS It has become an acknowledged fact of popular music ...

The success of "Jesus Is A Friend Of Mine" by New York-based band Sonseed is not only one of the strangest tales involving Christian music but is also one of the oddest sagas in the history of the ...

Manchester's youth evangelism ministry The Message Trust has a long and proud history of training and launching musicianaries to take the Gospel of Jesus into schools. From the fondly remembered early ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, better known as Pope Francis, is undeniably a history maker. He is the first Jesuit Pope, the first from the Americas and the first non-European Pope since Syrian Gregory III ...

Before Delirious?, before the World Wide Message Tribe, even before Graham Kendrick developed his worship persona, the most popular purveyor of Christian music in Britain was a ...