It's Christmas in July and the first major Christmas tour announcement of the season has arrived, and suddenly we're craving hot cocoa. There's something wonderfully disorienting about scrolling through Christmas tour dates while your weather app still says 97°. We're halfway through July. Kids are still squeezing ...

They were the soundtrack to youth groups, summer camps, late-night sporadic worship services in your friends first apartment, and countless church stages. Songs like "King," "Treasure," "Look What You've Done," and their Dove Award-winning rendition of "Blessed Be Your Name" beca...

By the mid-1980s, Contemporary Christian Music was changing. The pioneering Jesus Music movement had matured. Arena rock was arriving through bands like Petra and DeGarmo & Key. Artists like Steve Taylors were proving Christian music could be creative, clever, and culturally relevant. Meanwhile, a new sound was eme...