Anthony D. Baker

As Best as I Can Remember Him

Anthony Baker considers the theology in Rich Mullins’s most searching lyrics, two decades after the musician’s death.

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Kirk Webb

Is Christian Music Christian?

Christian music. What is it? And why is it? Before Keith Green, Amy Grant, and Michael W. Smith, I suppose “Christian music” in the United States would have been black and white Gospel expressions, campfire songs, hymns, and classical music with distinct Christian purpose such as Handel’s Messiah. Beyond those roots, the Christian music industry […]

Jason Killingsworth

A Conversation with Bill Mallonee

Surely you’re familiar with the tale of some unrefined hillbilly purchasing a cheap plot of land, oblivious to the fortune in crude oil sloshing about just beneath the surface. Of course you are. Well, my Jed Clampett moment occurred toward the end of my Junior year of high school when I borrowed a Best Of […]