In some situations, there is just no winning. That certainly seemed to be the case for the oxymoronic genre of Christian Rock. Secular audiences mocked and scorned it while many Christians disdained it. Martin Luther King, Jr. described Christianity as being “totally incompatible” with rock or rock ‘n’ roll as such music “so often plunges…

Grammy award winner Chris Tomlin has announced his 2018 Christmas tour, “Chris Tomlin Christmas: Christmas Songs of Worship.” The tour is schedules to run from November 30, 2018, to December 16, 2018, and cover 12 cities. The tour will offer lucky audiences up-close and personal concert experiences that are staged as an “intimate ‘evening with’…

When most people go to church, they do not expect to find a Grammy Award winning artist speaking to them about faith, but that is exactly what happened at Pastor Rich Wilkerson Jr.’s megachurch, VOUS Church, in Miami, Florida. The topic was “Joy Through Sacrifice,” and the guest speaker was Christian rapper Lecrae. The artist…

If you can think of a stereotype for Muslim women, the odds are that Mona Haydar utterly shatters it. A mother of two, this proud woman also has a Masters in Christian Ethics, 13 years under her belt as a performance poet and a burgeoning second career in rap music. A first generation American with…

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