In my youth, I was scared out of listening to non-Christian music. It was the “devil’s music” and it had “no redeeming value.” Names like Judas Priest and Megadeth proved the argument in my childish brain. After all, they did use the Lord’s name in vain and a whole...

If you weren’t looking for it, you probably missed the 2008 return of Sixpence None the Richer, humble and unheralded, a return that, for me, sees their re-arrival in the midst of a second age of Christian music, which is retroactively furthered by the success of bands like Switchfoot and The Fray...