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American Idol winner Kris Allen will perform today on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. If you can’t catch the show, here’s a little preview video of Kris singing Heartless and the American Idol single, “No Boundaries.” It’s much better acoustic. If anyone could make that stupid song sound halfway decent, it was Kris Allen. Allen Songby…

Much has been made over the last few days about the surprise upset on season 8 of American Idol, when the aw, shucks guy next door Kris Allen beat out glam rocker Adam Lambert for the title of American Idol. It was a surprise only if you weren’t reading this blog.I called Kris Allen the…

Welcome to the new feature on the Gospel Soundcheck blog, Cooking With Christian Music! While I was at GMA this past April, I got to talking to a couple of artists about recipes and cooking, and thought it would be fun to offer my readers something a little different. So every week I’ll share a…

While I was in Nashville recently for Gospel Music Week, I got to talking with several artists about cooking. It was kind of an unusual topic to talk about during a week promoting music, but when I got home I started to think that it might be fun for readers to get a little more…

Syracuse.com reports that Basilio “Buz” Cua died Tuesday at the age of 90. Cua is the father of Christian music artist and industry professional, Rick Cua. Rick Cua will not be able to go home for the funeral; he’s having surgery for prostate cancer on Thursday and his family wants him to go through with…

Catch me tomorrow morning at 8:30 am eastern on WETN 88 radio’s Joy In The Morning, broadcasting from Wheaton College. We’ll be talking American Idol and Christianity. I think you can listen online at the WETN website. Check out my Dogvotional Gallery at Beliefnet, 10 Lessons I Learned From My Dog. (What’s a dogvotional?) Click…

Last night the worship leader from Conway, Arkansas pulled off what might be the biggest upset in American Idol history when he beat out the glam rocker from San Diego, Adam Lambert for the title of American Idol. Allen spent much of the season in the shadow of fellow worship leader Danny Gokey, who was…

In addition to covering Christian music for Beliefnet and other publications, I also write a humor/slice of life column for the Christian Voice Magazine, and something I call dogvotionals – life and faith lessons I’ve learned from my dog. I did a gallery of 10 lessons I’ve learned from my Border collie Scout, which you…

Well, this is it, my friends. It’s been a long journey from those first auditions to the finale, but here we are with two of the best performers in this season’s competition still standing. One will be named American Idol. Both will go on to successful music careers. Tonight’s two hour finale show will feature…

Last night the two remaining Idol contestants, the aw, shucks worship leader from Conway, Arkansas, Kris Allen, and the glam rocker from Los Angeles, Adam Lambert, battled it out to the final note for the title of Season 8’s American Idol. As Ryan Seacrest put it, it was the guy next door vs. guyliner. You…
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