A three-part documentary about the group, "A Band Called Love Song: The Music & Movement of the Jesus Revolution," is set to come out on Prime Video on Sept. 19. Following Love Song's initial breakup ...

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 ...

Personal tributes are pouring in for Chuck Girard, a pioneering voice of the 1970s Jesus Movement whose music shaped contemporary Christian worship, as friends and family prepare to celebrate his life ...

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 Conversation) — Haight-Ashbury proved to be fertile ground for a startling new combination of the hippie style with conservative evangelical Christianity – the 'Jesus People.' (The Conversation) ...

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 ...

(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 ...

LOS ANGELES -- The birth of contemporary Christian rock and pop music in America can in part be traced to a vision received by a 17-year-old runaway from Costa Mesa named Lonnie Frisbee. After ...

(RNS) — The contemporary Christian music industry survived scandals, pushback from televangelists and the wholesale disruption of the record industry over the past 50 years and kept rolling along.

Chuck Girard, who became one of the pioneers of Christian rock as Love Song’s lead singer in the 1970s after having hits as a member of the Hondells in the ’60s, died Monday at age 81. Girard had ...