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

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.

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 ...

But Skillet isn't strictly a hard-rock band. It's also a Christian band — John grew up in a devout family in Memphis, and Korey's parents co-founded Living Light Christian Church in Kenosha.

Nashville-based Christian rockers Newsboys are responding to troubling news regarding their 59-year-old former lead singer, Michael Tait. In a post on the group's social media, the Australian ...

And most everybody who made up the orbit of Christian rock and pop in the 1990s, the writers, publications, musicians, labels, publicists, and venues, seems to have moved right along, too.

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.

The result was Third Day, a powerhouse Christian rock band. “In 1996, we broke onto the national stage and we've been doing it ever since,” Anderson said, laughing.

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.