This is an example page. It’s different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation (in most themes). Most people start with an About page that introduces them to potential site visitors. It might say something like this:
In the word of David Lowman: The real and ultimate purpose of this blog and the corresponding podcast is to celebrate the amazing art, musicianship and creativity of Christian worldview music. The author of the Book of Hebrews talks about a cloud of witnesses that have gone on before us, setting the table and preparing the way. Isaac Newton borrowed similar imagery when talking about “standing on the shoulders of giants,” celebrating and recognizing the great accomplishments of predecessors who broke barriers, built bridges and created sustainable art for generations. This endeavor looks back joyfully and reverently at those artists and the amazing LEGACY they have left in their wake.
…or something like this:
The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things – the beauty, the memory of our own past – are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself, they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never visited.
[ C.S. Lewis, ‘The Weight of Glory’ ]
Most Western songs have their origins in the Bible whether one likes it or not, but only a few openly recognize their source. [ Nick Cave, singer-songwriter, musician, and frontman for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ]
Praise the Lord with blues and jazz and symphony orchestras, with negro spirituals and with Beethoven’s Fifth, with guitars and xylophones, praise him with gramophones and tape recorders…
Christian art is the expression of the whole life of the whole person as a Christian. What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be solely a vehicle for some sort of self-conscious evangelism. A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God. An art work can be a doxology in itself. [ Francis Schaeffer, theologian, philosopher, and Presbyterian pastor ]
Go out and preach the gospel … and if you must, use words.
[ St. Francis of Assisi ]
Greatest man in history,
had no servants, yet they called him Master.
Had no degree, yet they called him Teacher.
Had no medicines, yet they called him Healer.
He had no army, yet kings feared Him.
He won no military battles, yet He conquered the world.
He committed no crime, yet they crucified Him.
He was buried in a tomb, yet He lives today🙏🏻.
His name is Jesus.
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RESOURCES:
- CCM Magazine (US)
CCM Magazine is a digital music magazine focusing on CCM artists. US-based CCM once upon a time (1978 – 2008) was the largest in-print contemporary Christian music magazine in the world. - Cross Rhythms (UK)
Cross Rhythms is a website focusing on contemporary Christian music, featuring daily music news, more than 25.000 album reviews, Cross Rhythms Radio, and much more. Cross Rhythms originally was a UK based in-print contemporary Christian music magazine first published in 1990 (with links to Buzz Magazine published in the UK between 1965 and 1987, which probably was the first magazine in the world focusing exclusively on Christian pop music). - HM Magazine / Heaven’s Metal (US)
HM is an online magazine dedicated to honestly and accurately covering the current state of heavy music. It follows both the Christian rock and the Christian metal movement. Originally established in 1985 as an in-print magazine entitled Heaven’s Metal. Renamed HM Magazine in 1995, HM standing for “Hard Music.” // Magazine Back Issues - Worship Musician Magazine (US)
A digital music magazine that offers “Practical Help for Worship Teams”. (Christian Musician Magazine – “Improving Musicianship | Inspiring Talent” – has merged into Worship Musician Magazine.) - Down The Line Magazine (US)
A digital music magazine with a focus on Xian indie artists. Established in 2008. - The Phantom Tollbooth (US)
Music and more from a Christian perspective. Online since 1996. - All Music Guide (US)
Probably the world’s largest online database featuring comprehensive pop & rock music info, including reviews, discographies, and artist biographies. Featuring both mainstream and Xian artists. Online since 1991. - Angelic Warlord (US)
Your Christian Metal & Hard Rock Resource. - Tuesday Morning 3 a.m. (US)
Andre Salles’ Tuesday Morning 3 a.m. features music reviews focusing on mainstream as well as Xian indie artists. - Opus (US)
Jason Morehead’s webzine Opus features both music and movie reviews focusing on both Xian and mainstream indie artists. - Indie Vision Music (US)
Independent Christian music. Music news (and reviews), simple and to the point. - The Rabbit Room (US)
The Rabbit Room, named after the back room of the pub where the Oxford Inklings (including C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, and Charles Williams, among others) shared their stories, is an online creative community where many of the contributors are authors, songwriters, artists, and pastors. - Under the Radar (US)
Under the Radar highlights some of the best undiscovered and under-appreciated tunes from Christian artists. - True Tunes (US)
A blog about music, faith, and culture, fronted by John J. Thompson of True Tunes News fame (an in-print magazine which covered alternative Christian music, published between 1989 and 1998). - The Christian Music Archive (US)
An online resource focusing exclusively on music by CCM artists. Online since 1999. - Tha Holy Hip Hop Database (NL)
An online resource for the history, present and future of Christian rap-music and culture. Includes more than 3000 albums by 1000 artists. The project is entirely run by volunteers, and relies heavily on your feedback. - Christian Tape Underground (US)
Digging Deep Into the 80s and 90s Alt/Punk/Indie/Rock/Metal/Techno/Folk Tape Underground. - One-Way.org (US)
A DECADE OF JESUS MUSIC 1969-79. “Remembering the Past, Inspiring the Future”. Online since 1997. - 1960s Christian Music (UK)
A comprehensive source of information on 1960s Christian music groups from the UK. - Buzz Magazine (UK)
Buzz Magazine was launched in 1965 as the flagship of Musical Gospel Outreach to embrace and promote the emergence of contemporary Christian music. The website hosts backissues. - Full Circle Jesus Music (US)
Full Circle is a one-hour weekly Jesus Music show featuring classic Jesus music, artist interviews, ministry and lots of memories. The program is hosted by Jerry Bryant who pioneered one of the earliest and longest-running Jesus Music syndications. - Cephas Hour (US)
Every week to two weeks or so, Jerry Wilson curates a musical podcast titled “Cephas Hour”. It’s described as “the finest in Christian rock and pop from then and now”. - Archivist – Vintage Vinyl Jesus Music 1965 – 1980 (US)
Ken Scott’s Archivist is a guidebook to obscure and classic albums of the Jesus movement specifically written with the collector in mind. The Archivist reviews used on GospelBeat are taken from The 4th Edition of Archivist, a 370-page reference work that contains paragraph reviews and descriptions of approximately 3,200 Jesus music albums that were made from 1965 through 1980. (In 2022 a 5th Edition of The Archivist was released, featuring about 600 new reviews including many photos of album covers, this time in color. 458 pages.) - The Christian Underground Encyclopedia (US)
The C.U.E. (Christian Underground Encyclopedia) is the place for details about bands and artists from the hey days of alternative Christian music. Some of these became famous, some are pretty obscure. This site is a tribute to all of them. - CMnexus (US)
CMnexus: Contemporary Christian culture, music, and media. The CMnexus is a reference work. It is a magazine index specialized in Christian culture and music. It is a guide to the music of contemporary Christianity, an index of an artist’s significance to Christian music, and a record of Christian thought about popular Music.