Country music star Dolly Parton expresses her love and acceptance to all her lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender fans and she urged her fellow Christians not to judge anyone.
There's something ghastly spooky about Barry Manilow's "My Dream Duets." Released on the week of Halloween, this album finds the 71 year-old crooner opening the crypt to find his duet partners where most of them are already nothing but mere bones. In fact, all of Manilow's dream duet partners are all dead.
Sunday's Best Andrea Helms has finally released her DREAM Gospel Records debut "Clap Your Hands." Andrea Helms, known for her powerful voice and performances on Season 4 of BET's Sunday Best, is a lifelong singer and worshipper from Odessa, Texas.
Released this week is 116 Clique member and Reach Records rap artist Trip Lee's brand new album "Rise." This Christian rap album follows 2012's The Good Life with his finest effort to date, showcasing his signature lyrical depth over a bed of funky, hard, and poignant tracks. Coinciding with his book of the same title, Rise includes "Manolo" (ft. Lecrae), "Lazarus" (ft. Thi'sl), "Lights On," and more.
Duck Dynasty's Jep Robertson was hospitalized over the weekend after he suffered a seizure while hunting deer last week. Jep was with his brother, Willie, when the epileptic fit occurred. The 36 year-old was rushed to the hospital and received immediate treatment. He is doing well now, but is still in the hospital for additional tests and observation, and is being treated with antibiotics to cover a range of possible infections believed to have caused the seizure.
Dove Award winning Kathy Troccoli will be hosting a national women's gathering, called Hope's Alive in Franklin Tn. The intimate gathering is set for November 7-8 at Grace Church in Franklin, Tenn. Hope's Alive hours are 7-9 p.m. Friday, and November 7, 9 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. Saturday, November 8.
For Singer/Songwriter, Matt Price, there is nothing that makes him more alive than creating music. Citing Michael W. Smith and Billy Joel as his influences, over the past year, he has worked on fine tuning his writing skills, working with esteemed CCM veteran Cindy Wilt Colville (Jason Ingram, Building 429, Matthew West). He has also had the opportunity to play keys for artists such as Newsong and Francesca Battistelli. In September of 2013, he released his debut EP entitled "We Won't Waver".
"Set Apart" is the mouthpiece of the plebeian. What is most winsome about Worship Central's brand new live worship recording "Set Apart" is that it functions like many of the Psalms in Holy Writ. Articulating the heart cries of the ordinary Christian with concise perspicuity and never for once trivializing them, these are prayers offered to God in humble worship.
Third Day's Mac Powell has just released his second country music album entitled "Southpaw." The 12-song set finds the contemporary Christian rocker co-writing with Darius Rucker, Sugarland's Kristian Bush and Travis Tritt.
After taking a two year hiatus from recording and performing in order to focus on her family, Rebecca St. James is back on the stage for the first time. A few days ago, while her brothers, members of contemporary Christian rock duo for KING & COUNTRY, were recently performing at Rick Warren's Saddleback Church in South California, St. James took the stage to sing with her brothers.
The Christian community including Hillsong's matriarch Darlene Zschech, popular author and preacher Tony Evans, successor to Mark Driscoll Dave Bruskas and countless others offer their prayers and support to the victims of the Marysville shooting.
Dove Award winning Christian hip hop artist KJ-52's brand new album "Mental" has lodged in at #1 on iTunes Christian chart on October 21. The album achieved the #23 spot on the overall iTunes Top 100, and is holding steady in the top 10 on the Christian chart throughout this release week. Despite being released as KJ's first project as an independent artist, MENTAL debuts as the fastest selling album in his fourteen-year career.
After the resignation of Mark Driscoll as the senior pastor of Mars Hill Church last week, Dave Bruskas has been appointed as the mega church's interim preaching pastor.
Taylor Swift's "1989" is heralded by music industrialists as the Messiah of today's music. According to a recent report by Billboard magazine, none of the albums released in 2014 has sold over a million copies. The bestselling record this year is the soundtrack "Frozen" which was released last year. And the only record that is only going to redeem the music industry this year is Taylor Swift's "1989," an album that was expected to ship over a million copies in its debut week.
Christian worship leader and songwriter Kari Jobe has just shared a picture from her bridal shower on facebook (see above). The picture shows an intimate snapshot the singer gazing lovingly at fiance Cody Carnes. The shower was held by Gateway Worship where Jobe serves as one of the worship pastors. The wedding is set for November 21 2014.