Christian and Gospel Music
Gospel and Christian music stories: the songs, the songwriters and the true stories behind the music the church sings.
The systems behind excellence — how the most consistent artists and worship leaders build careers that last.
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The True Story Behind "Oh Happy Day" (It Started as a Fundraiser)
Five hundred vinyl copies, sold by hand to pay for a bus trip to Washington. Nobody involved was trying to make a hit, and that may be exactly why they did.
Jonathan Miles · 6 min
6 Gospel Songs That Secretly Teach Sound Theology (and the Stories Behind Them)
You have sung these songs a hundred times. Here is the theology hiding in plain sight, and the true stories that produced it.
Jonathan Miles · 8 min
Richard Smallwood: Iconic Songwriter
Half a century of hymns and gospel standards from a songwriter who built a career on the conviction that grief and worship belong in the same song.
Yvonne Carter · 9 min