Music critic and co-director of the ChristianityToday.com music channel.

It's worth mentioning that this album was independently released in 1999. However, it was only widely distributed beginning March 2001. We also suspect that most critics did not fairly consider Conversations for their 1999 best-of lists because it was an independent release at the time.

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Ben Glover (Word)

Ceili Rain (Cross Driven Records)

Katy Hudson (Red Hill Records)

Our top picks of the best worship albums from the last year, an annual list that we started last year just before September 11th.

Imagerical (Reunion)

Classical Christian music, especially the sacred works of Johann Sebastian Bach, finds a young, and large, audience.

On a memorable London night, the bright and glistening theology of Messiah broke through my jet-lagged consciousness.

New and noteworthy books on the Beatles, hate, and other subjects.

Seven years after its publication, Roaring Lambs—now with a companion CD—still prods Christian artists to engage the culture.

A review of the Roaring Lambs CD.

The Evangelical Culture of Euphemism, Part 3

Michael Card argues that a proper view of Christ is a key to creativity.

Two books tell the story behind John Lennon's short-lived conversion.

A dispatch from the Calvin Symposium on Worship and the Arts