God Can Redeem Anyone’s Story and Rahab Is the Proof

Hope Klessig was in third grade when she traveled to Branson, Missouri, with her family and saw Noah at Sight and Sound. The second act opened, live animals surrounded her, and she thought it was the coolest thing ever. Years later, after studying musical theater in college and driving 14 hours fro…

Hillsong Quietly Recorded an EP to Ask If God Was Still in It

Jad Gillies, singer with Hillsong Worship, helped record a quiet EP last year for one reason: to find out whether God still wanted the team making music at all. They hadn’t released a live worship album since 2018. Senior team members had moved on, and the church had been through a very public hard…

Do Not Lose Yourself in Your Cause When the Country Is Divided | Charles Esten

Charles Esten grew up in Alexandria, Virginia, steeped in the history of the Revolution, and now plays the British antagonist Lord Balfour in Drummer Boy, the Angel Studios musical about America’s fight for independence. The film comes from the Smallbone brothers of for KING & COUNTRY, and Charles …

Rachael Lampa Walked Away From a Record Deal at 19 and Came Back Whole

Rachael Lampa was 16 years old when Live for You released and introduced her to the world as one of Christian music’s most compelling new voices. She was nominated for a Dove Award. She toured, recorded, and did everything a young artist is supposed to do, and then at 19, in the middle of a record …

Open the Eyes of My Heart Was Track Eight and He Had No Idea

Paul Baloche has been writing worship songs for over 30 years, and he still describes the process the same way he always has, show up with your loaves and fishes and let God do what only He can do. The writer behind Open the Eyes of My Heart, Above All, Hosanna, and Your Name has a new live album c…

Masey McLain Chose Impact Over Opportunity and the Lord Did the Rest

Masey McLain was a little girl when her dad first watched Flywheel and loved it. She remembers watching him love it. Twenty years later, she got a call asking her to voice Anna, the wife, in the Brazilian remake, Flywheel: Ignition of the Soul. She said yes immediately. The challenge was matching t…

The Villain Who Almost Found Redemption and Walked Away From It

Neil McDonough plays Laredo, the man hunting the outlaw in Angel and the Bad Man, and he loves it. He is a horse guy, a lifelong western fan, a producer of now nearly sixteen films alongside his wife Ruve, and a man who says he has one boss. That boss is God, and every project he and Ruve put their…

The Conversation Nobody in Church Wants to Have Is Now a Movie

Beth Caulfield had a full scholarship to seminary, a clear sense of where her life was going, and kids who were nearly grown. Then she found out she was pregnant at 45. What followed was not just shock, it was pressure from people inside the church and church leadership to terminate the pregnancy, …

The 1978 Giants Had Nine Born-Again Christians and a Media Storm

Matt Sieger spent years researching the 1978 San Francisco Giants, a team that nobody remembers winning anything but everybody in the city that year remembers. They increased their attendance by one million fans in a single season. They had nine to ten born-again Christians on a 25-man roster. They…

Chris Darlington Was Hit by the Holy Spirit Harder Than a 25,000-Volt Taser

Chris Darlington has been tased on the job. He has also sat alone in a room with a guitar, written a song, and felt something that made him cry for 30 minutes straight, and he says the Holy Spirit that day had the taser beat. That song was Let Them In, and it changed the direction of his artistry. …