The Swanee Quintet are gospel music survivors - an old style vocal group who over the decades have travelled the Gospel Highway playing everything from humble storefront churches to Carnegie Hall and ...

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The current furore surrounding the recent admission by American singer/songwriter Jennifer Knapp that she is a lesbian is a sad phenomenon. But in a strange way it demonstrates that history has a ...

Back in the '70s British Christian rock was a fairly sedate thing. Most musicians were content to keep the approach folky and the volume down so as not to frighten the old ladies. And then a band from ...

For those with ears to hear, it's now being acknowledged in church circles that one of the most anointed and powerful worship anthems of recent times is the glorious live version of "I Speak Jesus" on ...

With the dramatic fall in credibility and commerciality of Australia's Hillsong mega church and its youth culture offspring Hillsong United, worship artist Benjamin William Hastings has emerged from ...

"Shine Jesus Shine" (also known by its first line "Lord, The Light Of Your Love") is surely to be considered a classic. It was voted 10th in a 2005 survey conducted by the BBC's Songs Of Praise of the ...

In the 60-year history of the British pop charts there have only ever been three hit songs whose lyrics have largely been taken directly from the Bible. In 1966 The Byrds hit with a song written by ...

Before Delirious?, before the World Wide Message Tribe, even before Graham Kendrick developed his worship persona, the most popular purveyor of Christian music in Britain was a ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, better known as Pope Francis, is undeniably a history maker. He is the first Jesuit Pope, the first from the Americas and the first non-European Pope since Syrian Gregory III ...

Currently one of the most played tracks on Cross Rhythms radio is the song "City Of The Great King" by Pas Neos. If you are versed in New Testament Greek you'll probably know that the band's name ...

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus are a rock band with a huge following - their debut record for Virgin went Gold in 2006 - but they are one who never fitted comfortably into the corporate manoeuvrings of ...