When British folk singer Bill Fay released Time of the Last Persecution, in 1971, the world was littered with religious music whose artistic worth was perhaps incidental (at best). While some wigged ...

The Jesus People movement of the 1960s and ’70s generated new kinds of music that transformed worship in evangelical churches. Arguably the single biggest alteration in the life of the average ...

(RNS) Bob Gersztyn owned a fine collection of 300 rock'n' roll albums in 1971, the year he accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior. Among them were some choice 1960s vinyl from Jimi ...

Bob Gersztyn owned a fine collection of 300 rock ’n’ roll albums in 1971, the year he accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior. Among them were some choice 1960s vinyl from Jimi Hendrix, ...

In their new documentary “The Jesus Music,” Birmingham-born brothers Jon and Andy Erwin construct an eye-opening historical overview of how the contemporary Christian music industry started and how it ...

In the beginning was Amy Grant. Sort of. She wasn’t the first to the Contemporary Christian Music party — a slew of shoeless longhairs in the early 70s beat her to it — but when she arrived, she was ...

Christian America loves to play the persecution card, as if the nation’s most dominant religion, with nearly 400,000 churches in the country, is having a hard time being recognized as a driving force ...

Filmmakers Andrew and Jon Erwin weren’t sure what to do with themselves after the COVID-19 pandemic shut things down in 2020, but then, like a voice from above, inspiration struck. “Our producing ...

Even if you have never heard of the Tony Award-winning “Jesus Christ Superstar” and every biblical reference in the show flies over your head, the Jewish Theatre Ensemble’s production of the musical ...

(RNS) At age 65, Bob Gersztyn’s religious fervor has mellowed so much that he calls himself an ``allegorical Christian.'' But he has put together his love of pop music and photography to publish ...