Tomorrow’s a preview of 2026! A collection of clips from my conversations with Jonathan Sedlak, Sara Koenig, @mburtwrites.bsky.social & @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social, @blindscholar.bsky.social, Jennie Grillo, Brian Walsh & Sylvia Keesmaat, Kirk MacGregor, David Basher, & @alexianafry.bsky.social.

You had me at "Afro-Cuban rhythm and grooves." 🥳 @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/top-...

Every year I compile a playlist of new Christmas music for @christianitytoday.com — this year’s list is here! Enjoy 😊🎄 www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/top-...

The story about AI-gen Solomon Ray has so much more than industry news. There's REAL Solomon Ray (also a Christian musician), a Jan. 6-adjacent hip-hop artist, Forrest Frank, and a conversation about what Christian music is for. @christianitytoday.com www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/solo...

I’ve been thinking a lot about how churches have been using hyper-polished contemporary music to attract people. What it what they actually want and need is radical anti-polish, and songs that are more like homemade casseroles? @christianitytoday.com www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/god-...

Yes and amen and more of it, please: "I came away from that camp believing that collaborative songwriting might be one of the scariest things we can do together—also one of the most generative." @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/god-...

"Reorienting a church’s musical culture toward grassroots songwriting and local eclecticism could be one sign of our upside-down kingdom." -- @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/god-...

If you're wondering what happened to the evangelical women's blogosphere, wonder no more. Social media, Covid, politics, and tribalism play a role in seismic shifts. "Today’s internet landscape...rewards controversial content." @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/jen-...

Will there be a Christian halftime show? We don’t know. Here’s some reporting on what we DO know about the ideas that are percolating and the historical precedent for Super Bowl counter-programming. @christianitytoday.com www.christianitytoday.com/2025/10/will...

"The good-Christian-parenting empire runs on the assumption that parental intentionality will achieve certain results." @mburtwrites.bsky.social @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social #MythOfGoodChristianParenting Order here: a.co/d/7SsKYNW

I think the dirty secret of the Christian moral panic industrial complex is that it has become its own form of entertainment. There are Christian influencers whose whole brand, it seems, is built on sowing fear about pop culture.

About to go live on YouTube to talk about our book! Join me and @mburtwrites.bsky.social as we talk with Wendy Snyder about Christian parenting teaching and its ideological underpinnings. 1:30 pm CT www.youtube.com/live/oCi39u1...

🌟New Release!🌟 The Myth of Good Christian Parenting: How False Promises Betrayed a Generation of Evangelical Families by @mburtwrites.bsky.social & @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social What happens when popular "biblical parenting" methods cause more harm than good? bakerbookhouse.com/products/978...

Happy Launch Day @mburtwrites.bsky.social and @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social ! Very excited to have this in my hands (but also this is a good opportunity to show off my new Turkish table runner and coffee set).

Thank you so much!

The Myth of Good Christian Parenting is out TOMORROW! And how is this real?? Seeing my book next to the work of two writers I admire is WILD and humbling.

First Saturday back home after three weeks of travel, and I'm getting cozy with my advance copy of "The Myth of Good Parenting" by @mburtwrites.bsky.social and @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social. We needed this book so bad, church. Reply "follow" to this post for quotes and impressions.

We are officially less than a month away from release day for “The Myth of Good Christian Parenting.” @mburtwrites.bsky.social and I invite you to join our launch team!

The new wave of Satanic Panic over popular music doesn’t stem from fiery preachers in suits—this time, it’s Christian influencers and musicians stoking alarm. And they are mobilizing beliefs about musical worship to gain traction. @christianitytoday.com www.christianitytoday.com/2025/07/wors...

Worship as Invasion vs. Worship as Intimacy: "Adam Russell, director of Vineyard Worship USA, said that over the past 20 years, he has seen a movement in contemporary worship music away from intimacy and toward 'intensity'.” @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social www.christianitytoday.com/2025/07/wors...

Christian influencers and artists are starting to call out in the "demonic" in secular songs again. @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social writes for CT about how today's hit worship music is priming the church to see music as power: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/07/wors...

Christian listeners generally know the figures on stage aren’t perfect, but when fans resonate with the music, they want to believe—or at least hope—that the musicians are earnest people of faith. On the Newsboys and guardrails for @christianitytoday.com www.christianitytoday.com/2025/07/news...

Join me & @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social In the Church Library for a conversation with Sunita Theiss to discuss neurodiversity in faith communities and families: www.buzzsprout.com/2463181/epis...

I have been MIA here for a while. Logging back on 👋 Here’s a picture of my youngest preparing her lunch yesterday. Real third-kid behavior here.

Our latest news roundup features insights from @bmietana.bsky.social, @jackjenkins.me, @jesus-jimz.bsky.social, @blytheb.bsky.social, @markwingdallas.bsky.social, @hannahvinueza.bsky.social, @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social, and more!

Barstool conversion rock is faith-flavored, masculine, and at least a little bit country. What’s going on with this wave of worship music for the bros at the bar? www.christianitytoday.com/2025/06/bars...

Beyond excited to announce that I've signed a contract for a 2nd book with @brazospress.bsky.social Tentatively titled "Clean and Holy," the book will explore how the diet and wellness industries have adopted faith language to sell products and ideas about "good" bodies to Christian women.

The once new, become old, made new again: “The cool thing is, there’s nothing new here. The Trinity is the center; it’s the nature of God in three persons. And here’s the oldest hymn we have, reminding us of that.” @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social www.christianitytoday.com/2025/04/anci...

From @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social at @christianitytoday.com www.christianitytoday.com/2025/04/anci...

Next semester, I'm teaching the following courses in our theology program: Worship and the Arts Death and Dying Poverty, Racism, and Power And a humanities seminar on globalization. DREAM semester. Weird to not be teaching music apprec or history for the first time in a bit, but I'm EXCITED.

Delighted to invite you to join @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social and me In the Church Library for informal podcast conversations in this limited run series. www.buzzsprout.com/2463181

How can hymns help the family of God bear one another’s burdens? @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social asked songwriting collective Anchor Hymns:

“The church has never really needed to worry about how corporate worship does or doesn’t engage children; the church has never feared losing them. The church does fear losing their parents, or losing them after they get their driver’s licenses.” Read more: open.substack.com/pub/kkramerm...

BEYOND excited that we can share this cover tell you all that you can pre-order The Myth of Good Christian Parenting! At the link in the thread below, you’ll get a 40% discount. @brazospress.bsky.social @mburtwrites.bsky.social

What is a "global" worship song? @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social reports on the challenges and opportunities for worshiping at international Christian gatherings:

This upcoming book by @mburtwrites.bsky.social and @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social will be fantastic!

It’s cover reveal day! You can pre-order The Myth of Good Christian Parenting now. The link in the post below will take you to the @brazospress.bsky.social site, where you’ll get a 40% discount!

Honored to be a guest at this year's Summer Institute for Global Charismatic-Pentecostal Studies at Emory University. Atlanta-area friends, please join us! Other guests include Propaganda and Dave Bazan. The website is live. Check it out! candler.emory.edu/about-candle...

"By seriously considering the emerging field of child liberation theology and the work of scholars of childhood, church communities may begin to unearth deeply rooted, harmful beliefs about children." ~ @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social

"One way @rlstollar.bsky.social suggests churches might begin to develop a vibrant and practical vision for child inclusion and empowerment is by embracing a theology of play." ~ @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social

Excited to be able to share this article in Religions, “To Be Seen and Heard: Toward a Child Liberation Theology Framework for Contemporary Praise and Worship Practice.” Examining the relationship between beliefs about children and worship practices. www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16...

My three year-old snuck into the church elevator this morning. We found her after about 5 mins of searching. The fire department showed up a few minutes later 🤦‍♀️🫠 she couldn’t figure out how to open the doors, but she DID figure out how to make an emergency call. How’s your day going?

We did a fact checking assignment in my Media Literacy course last week. We started with a post about raw milk. I think the students’ main takeaway was this: Fact checking is hard and time-consuming. Bad-faith actors know this, and use it to their advantage.

Some facts here—and a defense of what @christianitytoday.com is doing. I’ve had opportunity to test CT's commitment to letting reporters pursue the truth even when it was clear it would hurt. I can tell you this is not a place where the integrity wobbles www.christianitytoday.com/2025/02/chri...

Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone except the parent who sent slime valentines to school with their 1st grader 🫠

“Good art must exist because bad art exists (especially in times of increasing authoritarian displays of state power). Responsible journalism must exist because irresponsible journalism exists.” open.substack.com/pub/kkramerm...

“The polyphony of nature is, however, precisely the point… nature is that delightful paradox, a disorderly Wunderkammer of all possible orders.”

Salem Media Group, the largest Christian radio company in the United States, is selling Christian music stations and retiring its Fish brand. The deal marks the media company’s final exit from contemporary Christian music. Read @christianitytoday.com : www.christianitytoday.com/2025/01/the-...

My youngest goes to a play school at a big Lutheran church two mornings a week. Walked by this display of Bible/book studies today. Psalms and Psalms and… Jonathan Haidt.

"Edginess, musical and rhetorical, has long been part of Skillet’s brand. Increasingly, it seems, that edginess is expressing itself through politics." Read my profile of the veteran Christian rock band for @christianitytoday.com www.christianitytoday.com/2025/01/skil...