Dear Mr. Chris Tomlin, Please give other songs a chance. Our God has been #1 on Billboard’s Hot Christian Songs chart for ten weeks. You’ve kept so many songs at bay, including the Michael Tait-led Newsboys (Born Again, #2) and Sanctus Real (Lead Me, #3). Our God is a fabulous song, and it deserves to be at #1. But ten weeks? Srsly? And if that weren’t enough, you also debut at #50 at I Will Follow. You’re terrific. Have...

Juno Award-winning and Dove Award-nominated Canadian Christian rock band downhere has released its new EP, Two at a Time: Sneak Peeks and B-Sides, which features the new single You’re Not Alone. I remember hearing Hope is Rising and marveling at the glorious voice of Marc Martel and thinking to myself, “How is this band not getting more love at Christian AC?” Turns out Hope is Rising wasn’t the charting single over there,...

I featured Adrienne Liesching Camp, better known as Adie, a few months ago here, when her single Where Could I Go started to rise up the Radio and Records Soft AC/Inspo charts. The Contemporary Christian ingenue, best known for her being the lead singer of late 90s Christian pop-rock group The Benjamin Gate and now wife and collaborator of Contemporary Christian superstar Jeremy Camp, isn’t quite done with her CD, Just You And Me, as the...

Keith and Kristyn Getty are the pioneers of the “modern hymn,” soaring songs that, together with their frequent collaborator, Stuart Townend, help teach the faith and “create a more timeless musical style that every generation can sing, a style that relates to the past and the future.” This drive to create hymns that speak to the heart of every Christian has produced gems like In Christ Alone, Speak, O Lord, and The Power...

Just so y’all know, the Macbook Pro assigned to me by the church in the Philippines for which I work, has crashed. At around 4:30pm Friday afternoon, I closed Macky’s lid so I could bring him to the canteen for a working snack. When I reopened him, his screen was black. Efforts to resuscitate him, including hard starts and praying over, with matching laying on of hands, were futile. We are accepting offers of sympathy, flowers and...