Podcast Episodes

Fictional Christian Music (ft. Righteous Gemstones' Joseph Stephens, Daniel Smith and Chris White)

Season 2 Episode 6

How do you make fake Contemporary Christian Music? Creating fictional Christian music that feels authentic without crossing the line into parody or pastiche is a tricky artistic challenge. But we fou…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

The Paradox

KUOW's podcast Let The Kids Dance! is the story of Seattle's Teen Dance Ordinance in a seven-part docuseries chronicling an untold chapter of pop-culture history. It’s a story about moral panic, gras…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

The DC Talk Test (ft. Jason Kirk and Kevin T. Porter)

Season 2 Episode 5

What happened to the kids raised during the peak era of Christian rock? For insight into the state of Christian rock's late 1990s-early aughts evangelicalism you need not look any further than member…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

Purity Bros (ft. Joshua Harris)

Season 2 Episode 4

Purity culture wasn’t just for youth group “purity girls.” “Purity bros” were also a part of the project! No one knows that more than Joshua Harris, a CCM fan who helped turn purity culture into an e…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

Purity Girls (ft. Nikki Leonti)

Season 2 Episode 3

In 2001, teen singing sensation Nikki Leonti was on her way to a promising Christian music career. She had two hit CCM records, and - as a pop princess who swore to refrain from premarital sex - the …

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

Holy Hip Hop (ft. Soup The Chemist)

Season 2 Episode 2

In the 1990s, music critics argue that hip hop was in its golden age. Mainstream Top 40 charts were filled with hits from The Notorious B.I.G, Tupac Shakur, and Dr. Dre. But the Contemporary Christia…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

Undo Me (ft. Jennifer Knapp)

Season 2 Episode 1

In 1999, ​singer-songwriter Jennifer Knapp was at the top of the Christian music world. Her debut album Kansas was gold-certified, she'd won four Gospel Music Association Dove Awards, and she was on …

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Season Two Trailer

In the second season of Rock That Doesn't Roll, hosts Dr. Leah Payne and Andrew Gill look at how Christian music shaped the world we're living in now. Topics covered in season two include hip hop, fe…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

How Amy Grant Got To The Tiny Desk (ft. Lars Gotrich)

In this bonus episode, Andrew and Leah talk with Lars Gotrich of NPR Music, the producer who brought Amy Grant to play a Tiny Desk Concert. Lars shares how he went from "judgy Christian punk rocker" …

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Introducing: Kristin Du Mez and David French on No Small Endeavor with Lee C. Camp

What happens when one of the country’s most outspoken critics of white male Christian political conservatism sits down with a well-known white male conservative Christian political pundit? Find out, …

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago