Chuck Girard, who pioneered Christian rock in the 1970s with the group Love Song after earlier hitting the top 10 with the ...

Singer-songwriter Chuck Girard, one of the pioneers of contemporary Christian rock and the lead singer of the band Love Song ...

The problem is, of course, that the rebellion and the establishment are never so well defined. Look at Larry Norman, whose 1969 debut album is sometimes called the first Christian rock record.

With the signature clean production and contemplative, easy pace of Christian rock, artist Jeremy Camp’s 2006 track “Let It Fade” invited listeners to be saved, to find new life.

The first time I saw them, at a Christian rock festival in Bushnell, Ill., I was struck by how much their emotional live show reminded me of punk gigs that I used to see when I was high school.

Which makes the critical indifference paid to Christian rock and pop music all the more puzzling. What is commonly called Christian Contemporary Music, or CCM, was born and grew up in the late ...

CLARKSVILLE, TN − The Awakening Tour is returning to F&M Bank Arena this fall, this time featuring Skillet, Jeremy Camp and ...

But Rock on the Range wasn’t just about legends: new and up-and-coming acts like Fever 333, Code Orange, Power Trip, Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown and Greta Van Fleet (the latter of whom also ...

Greg Garrett, a professor at Baylor University and author of We Get to Carry Each Other: The Gospel According to U2, suggests Christian rock has become a toxic phrase in pop “for a good reason.

But for now, EMF and the Christian-rock industry, it seems, are happy to be a joke if it keeps scrutinizing eyes off them. “The public just doesn’t really care what they’re doing,” says Urick.